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country has an entire state completely inside of its borders |
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a country that is completely surrounded by another political state |
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an area separated from its state by another country |
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states that are small in area and pop. |
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equidistant from the center of the country |
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elongated
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countries are at least twice as long as they are wide: long and skinny
ex: nepal, italy gambia and chile |
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is a capital city that is put in a particular location to show that the home country has the intention of using the land that is not in current use |
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is nor necessarily to send resources back to the home country immediately |
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involves conquest force. armies will attack, pillage, and plunder their way though land, taking resources by force |
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used sea power to control an area. |
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is the practice of establishing political dominance over a people for economic political, and territorial gain |
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does not exist any longer but its impact is still felt and seen on the landscape |
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political boundary that ignores the existing cultural organization on the landscape. usually placed by higher authority. |
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develop along with the development of the cultural landscape |
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exist before the human settlement of an area |
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countries do not have the right to search for natural resources |
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Exclusive economic zones
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means that countries have the right to explore resources up to 200 miles off their shores. |
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is the breakup of an area into smaller independent units and usually involves some degree of hostililty |
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boundaries are latitude and longitude features or straight lines |
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natural features
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ethnographic or cultural boundaries |
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cultural factors such as language, religion, or ethnicity |
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when a particular group leads a revolt against the current ruling power |
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states regulate their own internal and external affairs |
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occurs when the cultural borders of a nation correspond with the state borders of a country
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group of people with common characteristics. may be linked by ethnicity, religion, language |
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an area with boundaries and sovereignty or any area with defined territory that exercises its sovereign control over areas both inside and outside of its borders. |
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less developed countries are still economically dependent upon the more developed countries. |
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5 stages of Rostow's take-off model |
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1) traditional society 2) preconditions for takeoff or transitional phase 3) takeoff stage 4) drive to maturity 5) the age of mass consumption |
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means that companies are leaving, and unemployment rates are high. third area in the core-periphery |
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provide the majority of the resources for the industrial core |
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2nd maj area in core-perphery model. means gaining jobs and attractin industry |
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where the maj. of the manufacturing or industrial activities of a nation or a ciry are located |
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more developed countries, which use the resources of the periphery to continue their success |
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sugeests that some countries are allowing themselves to remain in poverty as a whole to obtain some other type of economic power. |
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gross domestic product per capita |
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total amount of goods and services produced in a country divided by the total population of that contry |
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gross domestic product (GNP) |
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the selling value, or market price, of all goods and services produced within a particular country's border |
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gross national product (GNP) |
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the value of goods and services produced by the country's companies, usually within one year |
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south korea, taiwan, hong kong, singapore. |
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are areas where trade goods are brought to be reloaded onto other forms of transportation |
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Special economic zones (SEZs) |
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designated specifically for foreign companies to locate their headquaters. |
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