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The shape of a state is determined by the political boundaries and geography that determine its territory, and that shape impacts the politics and economies of the state. [1] The six categories of state shapes are: compact; elongated or attenuated; fragmented; prorupted or protruded; perforated; and compound or complex. [2] [3] [4]
A landscape border is a mixture of political and natural borders. One example is the defensive forest created by China's Song dynasty in the eleventh century. [6] Such a border is political in the sense that it is human-demarcated, usually through a treaty. However, a landscape border is not demarcated by fences and walls but instead landscape ...
Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas. The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas. Disputed areas are not considered.
The term "boundary problem" was introduced by the American political scientist Frederick G. Whelan in 1983. Whelan noted that the concept of democracy "always makes reference to a determinate community of persons (...) who are collectively self-governing", yet the drawing of the boundaries of such communities "is a significant problem for democratic theory and practice" and "democratic theory ...
Over 40% of the world’s borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. The British and French drew the modern borders of the Middle East, the borders of Africa, and in Asia after the independence of the British Raj and French Indochina and the borders of Europe after World War I as victors, as a result of the Paris ...
Unit 4 - Political Patterns and Processes Topic Number Topic Description 4.1 Introduction to Political Geography 4.2 Political Processes 4.3 Political Power and Territoriality 4.4 Defining Political Boundaries 4.5 The Function of Political Boundaries 4.6 Internal Boundaries 4.7 Forms of Governance 4.8 Defining Devolutionary Factors 4.9
An off-duty New York City cop has been arrested for allegedly raping and strangling someone close to him, sources told The Post Saturday. Samuel Sierra, 35, was arrested around 7:20 p.m. Friday ...
These systems typically involve a form of at-large elections or multimember districts. Examples of such systems include the single-transferable vote, cumulative voting, and limited voting. [105] Proportional voting systems, such as those used in all but three European states, [106] would bypass the problem altogether. In these systems, the ...