TERRITORY

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TERRITORY

• States cannot exist without territory
• Territorial Morphology geographers study the
  size, shape and relative location of states?
• How does the size and shape of a state give
  advantages or disadvantages?
• 5 types of territorial morphologies

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Most modern-day boundaries were drawn by whom?

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COMPACTWhat are the advantages disadvantages?
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FRAGMENTEDWhat are the advantages
disadvantages?

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ELONGATEDWhat are the advantages disadvantages?
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PRORUPT or PROTRUDEDWhat are the advantages
disadvantages?

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PERFORATEDWhat are the advantages
disadvantages?
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What territorial morphology is ITALY?
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EXCLAVES ENCLAVES

• Exclave bounded (non-island) piece of territory
  that is part of a state but lies separated from
  it by territory of another state.
• Enclave piece of territory that is surrounded
  by another political unit of which it is not a
  part (landlocked within the country which
  surrounds them.

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EXCLAVE
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ENCLAVE
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Google Azerbaijan and Armenia maps and look
what you get
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Talk about a strangely shaped states...
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Shape is not a constant for political/economic
stability or instability

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Resource richbut with many problems

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Very few natural resourcesbut wealthy and
stable
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LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES

• Isolation
• At the mercy of neighbors
• Need communication linkages (highways, airports,
  rivers, etc.)
• Have formed alliances with other countries to
  lessen isolation
• Only LIECHTENSTEIN UZBEKISTAN are both
  landlocked and surrounded by landlocked countries.

                                                
                                                  
                    
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BOUNDARIES

• Obviously mark the land surface
• (Refer to pp. 242-244 in your text).
• But, they also extend into airspace and the
  ground
• What about natural resources?
• What about air traffic?
• What about sea traffic?

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SETTING BOUNDARIESStage One

• DEFINITION exact location established through
  legal agreement, treaty, etc. Can describe
  terrain feature or be measured by longitude and
  latitude.

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SETTING BOUNDARIESStage Two

• DELIMITATION putting the boundary on a map
  officially.

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SETTING BOUNDARIESStage Three

• DEMARCATION The final stage. Marking a
  boundary with fences, walls, posts, pillars, or
  other markers. Most of the worlds boundaries
  are not demarcated.

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Four Types of Boundary Disputes

• Definitional center on legal issues
• Locational definitions not disputed the
  interpretation is
• Operational parties differ on how boundary
  should function (how migration should occur)
• Allocational conflict over stuff oil, gas,
  seafloor riches, water

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Former Yugoslavia - p. 212http//www.montenet.org
/home/yugoslav.jpg

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FEDERAL STATES

• A political-territorial system in which a
  central government represents the various
  entities (states, provinces, cantons) within a
• country (most often a nation-state) where they
  have common interests
• (defense, foreign affairs...)
• but allows the various
• entities to retain their own
• identities and to have their
• own laws, policies customs
• within designated spheres.

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UNITARY STATES

• Nation-states having a strong centralized
  government and administration that exercises
  power equally over all parts of the state.

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Unitary States of the World in blue Federal
States in gray http//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/I
mageUnitary_states.png

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ADDENDUM ITEMS OF INTEREST? Where do they
fit?
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European Microstates Map
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KURDISTAN A Stateless Nation of People (in
the mountains of Turkey, Iraq Iran)
KURDS
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SEALAND a country? principality?
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