Key Terms:Political Geography State: an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has full sovereignty over it’s internal and foreign afffairs. Examples are Monaco, Korea, and Singapore. Nation: a self-defined population who shares a sense of common origin and a belief in a common political destiny. Examples include the Americas, Poles, and Kurds. Nation-state: state in which the population shares a common nationality, heritage, and their culture …showed first 75 words of 282 total…

…showed last 75 words of 282 total…few internal cultural differences with a strong sense of nationalism. Also present through domination. Examples include China, Iceland, and Cuba. Federal state: this allocates strong power to units of local government within the country. This is useful when a large state and national capital remote, or where multinational population tends to reduce core vs. periphery tensions and separatist movements, although it could also reinforce ethnocentrism. Examples include the United States, Switzerland, and Australia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**