Political Geography Vocabulary

Political Geography Vocabulary

Annexation
Antarctica
Apartheid
Balkanization
Border landscape
Buffer state
Capital
Centrifugal
Centripetal
City-state
Colonialism
Confederation
Conference of Berlin (1884)
Core/periphery
Decolonization
Devolution
Domino theory
EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone)
Electoral regions
Enclave/exclave
Ethnic conflict
European Union
Federal
Forward capital
Frontier
Geopolitics
Gerrymander
Global commons
Heartland/rimland
Immigrant states
International organization
Iron Curtain
Irredentism / Israel/Palestine
Landlocked
Law of the Sea
Lebanon
Mackinder, Halford J.
Manifest destiny
Median-line principle
Microstate
Ministate
Nation
National iconography
Nation-state
Nunavut
Raison d’être
Reapportionment
Regionalism
Religious conflict
Reunification
Satellite state
Self-determination
Shatterbelt
Sovereignty
State
Stateless ethnic groups
Stateless nation
Suffrage
Supranationalism
Territorial disputes
Territoriality
Theocracy
Treaty ports
Unitary
USSR collapse
Women’s enfranchisement

Boundary, disputes (definitional, locational, operational, allocational)

Boundary, origin (antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic)

Boundary, process (definition, delimitation, demarcation)

Boundary, type (natural/physical, ethnographic/cultural, geometric)

Territorial morphology (compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupt, perforated)

UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)

1st Half of Vocab

Antarctica
antecedent Boundary
Apartheid
Balkanization
Centrifugal
Centripetal
City-state
Colonialism
compact state
Confederation
Conference of Berlin (1884)
Decolonization
Devolution
Electoral regions
elongated state
Enclave/exclave
Ethnic conflict
ethnographic/cultural boundary
Federal
Forward capital
fragmented state
geometric boundary
Immigrant states
Landlocked
Manifest destiny
Microstate
Ministate
Nation / National iconography
Nation-state
natural/physical Boundary
Nunavut
perforated state
prorupted state
Raison d’être
Reapportionment
Regionalism
relic boundary
Religious conflict
Reunification
Satellite state
Self-determination
Sovereignty
State
Stateless ethnic groups
Stateless nation
subsequent boundary
Suffrage
superimposed boundary
Unitary
USSR collapse
Women’s enfranchisement

2nd Half

Annexation
Border landscape
Boundary, disputes definitional,
Boundary, disputes locational,
Boundary, disputes operational,
Boundary, disputes allocational
Boundary, process definition,
Boundary, process delimitation
Boundary, process demarcation
Buffer state
Capital
Core/periphery
Domino theory
EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone)
European Union
Frontier
Geopolitics
Global commons
Heartland/rimland
International organization / Iron Curtain
Irredentism
Israel/Palestine
Law of the Sea
Lebanon
Mackinder, Halford J.
Manifest destiny
Median-line principle
Nunavut
Shatterbelt
Supranationalism
Territorial disputes
Territoriality
Theocracy
Treaty ports
UNCLOS