Political Organization of Space: Geographic Relationship between States and Nations and State Shapes

Includes Enclaves, Exclaves, Irredentism, and also included sovereignty because why not.

Autonomous Region

An area of a country that has a degree of freedom from the central government

Stateless nation

A group of people who do not have their own state and are most likely a minority in the state

Nation

A community of people with common language, territory, and ethnicity but they do not have sovereignty

Multinational State

A sovereign state with more than one nation

State

A sovereign political entity

Nation-state

A sovereign state whose population shares a common history and culture

Multistate nation

A group of people with common characteristics that live in multiple states

Enclaves

A territory whose geographical boundaries lie within the boundaries of another territory

Exclaves

A territory legally attached to another territory with which it is not physically contiguous, borders more then one country or another geographical feature

Irrdentism

Territorial claim based on national, ethnic, or historical basis to gain resources, etc

Compact State

Advantage: Strong centripetal force, smaller states so it has easy communication from capital

Disadvantage: Civil war and ethnic rivalries and arise due to closeness

Prorupted State

Advantage: Provide state with access to resource

Disadvantage: Disrupted communications

Elongated State

Advantage: Access to various resources(ex. water source) and landscape(ex. different vegetation for agriculture)

Disadvantage: Poor internal communications and transportation as it can be isolated from capital

Fragmented State

Advantage: Coming together because of shared economic/development goals and political priorities. Different resources.

Disadvantage: Difficult for states with problems with vast communication and national unity. Hard to keep country secure. Different ethnic groups but same policy to follow.

Perforated State

Advantage: Perforated state(larger one surrounding enclave) has resources from other countries/area

Disadvantages: Surrounded state is dependent on surrounding state. It has to rely on the surrounding countries government to import and export goods. Landlocked + enclave.

Sovereignty

Country has control or final authority over social, economic, and political matters. It has a right to control its territory both politically and militarily. It contains a central government and chooses how and if to distribute powers to local regions.