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Nation State System
 History

• 30 year bloody war

• Treaty of Westphalia (1648)
• State Definition
• According to montivideo convention on the rights
and duties of state 1933
Under article 1
Properties
1. Population 2.Territory 3. Government 4.Capacity
to enter into relation with other states
 Type of government

• Autocracy(single ruler)
– Dictatorship
– Monarchy
• Democracy (the people)
• Oligarchy (small group)
• Theocracy (religion)
• Anarchy (none)
 NORTH

WEST EAST

SOUTH
 Types of maps

• There are three types of maps

– Physical Maps
– Political Maps
– Special Purpose Maps
 Physical Maps

• Natural characteristics
– Mountain ranges
– Deserts
– Oceans
– Etc.
 Political Maps

• A political map focuses on boundaries

between entities, like
– Countries,
– States
.
 Continents

• There are seven continents on this Earth

– ASIA
– AFRICA
– NORTH AMERICA
– SOUTH AMERICA
– ANTARCTICA
– EUROPE
– AUSTRALIA
 Oceans

• There are five oceans

– Pacific ocean
– Atlantic ocean
– Indian ocean
– Antarctic ocean
– Artic ocean
Continents with there
states

Smallest to largest
 Australia

• The smallest continent in the world, called

Australia and Oceania, is surrounded by the
Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans.
• There are 14 independent countries and 12
dependent overseas territories.
• the famous beach resorts of the Gold Coast.
Australia
 Europe

• Europe is a unique continent, which is not

surrounded by water from all directions.
• Totally now Europe includes 44 independent
states.
• Europe's largest country is Russia (37% of total
continent area).
 Antarctica

• Lying almost concentrically around the South

Pole, Antarctica—the name of which means
“opposite to the Arctic”—is the southernmost
continent.
Antarctica
 North America

• North America is surrounded by the Arctic

Ocean from the north
• by the Atlantic Ocean from the east.
• by the Pacific Ocean from the west and south.
• It has an overland border with South America
continent, which runs along the state
boundary between Panama and Colombia.
 Africa

• Surrounded by water from all directions

• In the north it is separated from Europe by the
Mediterranean Sea.
• in the northeast, is separated from Asia by the
Suez Canal and farther by the Red Sea.
• From the east and southeast it is surrounded by
the Indian Ocean, from the west by the Atlantic
Ocean.
• The total number of independent states in Africa
is 54.
 Asia

• Includes 48 countries,
• It is the most populated continent,
• The 60% of the total population of the Earth
live here
Countries and their capital
Cont.
Middle East
Central Asia
South East Asia
South Asia
 Pakistan and its Neighbour

• Total length of Pak – China border is 595

kilometres
• Total length of Pakistan Afghanistan border is
2252 kilometres
• Total length of Pakistan and Iran border is 805
kilometres
• Total length of Pakistan and India border is
1610 Kilometres
 Pakistan

• Area of Pakistan 796096 km2

• Including AJK and Gilgit Bultistan, It would be
881,913 km² the total area of Pakistan
• 33rd-largest nation by total area
• 5th largest by population
• National language: Urdu
• Official language: Urdu and English
• 160 districts
 Balochistan

• Balochistan, the largest of the four provinces

of Pakistan, spreads over an area of 347,190
Sq, Kms
• Forming 43.6 per cent of the total area of
Pakistan
• Balochistan into seven divisions
• 34 districts
• Largest district Chaghi
 Punjab

• Second largest province by area after

Balochistan with an area of 205,344 square
kilometres
• Punjab into nine divisions
• 36 districts
• Largest district by area Bahawalpur
 Sindh

• 140,914 km²
• Sindh into seven divisions
• 30 districts
• Largest District
• Tharparkar
 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• 101,741 km²
• KP is divided into seven divisions
• 35 districts
• Largest district Peshawar