AP®︎ Human Geography: Topic 4.1 Flashcards

A politically organized territory with a permanent population, defined territory, government, sovereignty, and recognition as independent by other states; examples include Japan and Brazil

A state's ultimate governing authority over its internal and external affairs without legal subordination to another state

A people who understand themselves as a cultural and political community based on a shared identity, such as the Japanese or Kurds

An independent state whose territory corresponds closely to the homeland of one principal nation, such as Japan or Iceland

An independent state containing two or more nations with significant distinct identities, such as the United Kingdom

A nation whose members and traditional homeland extend across two or more independent states, such as Koreans or Kurds

A nation that lacks its own independent sovereign state, such as the Kurds

A subnational territory with substantial authority to govern its own affairs while remaining part of a sovereign state, such as Greenland

A subnational territory with limited self-government that remains under the sovereignty of a larger state, such as an American Indian reservation