AMSCO AP HUMAN GEOGRAPH UNIT 4

Nation State

Nation of people who fulfill the qualifications of a state (ex: Iceland and Japan)

Nation

A group of people who have certain things in common:

• Common Cultural Heritage

• Set if beliefs and values that unify them

• Traditional claim to a particular space as their homeland

• a desire to establish their own state or express self-rule in another way

Multinational State

A country that consists more than 1 nation most today are and consists one dominant nation who controls most of the political power and other smaller ones who have some sort of significant impact (ex: Canada being bilingual but containing other nations like Inuit)

Autonomous Regions

Defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state. States often grant this authority (ex: Aland is a group of islands in Baltic Sea and part of Finland but lies near Sweden and signed to join Sweden but then the National league ruled that it should remain apart of Finland but have it’s own Sovereignty.)

Semi-Autonomous Regions

A state that has some degree of, but not complete self-rule (Ex: Navajo claim grits to 27000 sq mi for their reservati0n, which is federally recognized territory for Native Americans and have exemptions from state taxes. However, US does not recognize them as a complete Sovereignty or independence of the Navajo or other Native American reservations)

Stateless Nation

Cultural group that has no independent political entity (ex: Kurds, Navajo, Palestine decades ago.)

Multistate Nation

Occurs when a nation has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states. (Ex: Hungarians live in Hungary, but many live in the Transylvania region of Romania)