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SOUTHEAST ASIA -I
  • (CHAPTER 10: 486-501)
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MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC QUALITIES
  • A FRAGMENTED REALM OF NUMEROUS ISLAND COUNTRIES AND PENINSULAS
  • PHYSIOGRAPHY DOMINATED BY HIGH RELIEF, CRUSTAL INSTABILITY, AND TROPICAL CLIMATES
  • EXHIBITS CHARACTERISTICS OF A SHATTER BELT
  • POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND CONFLICT
  • CLUSTERED POPULATION PATTERNS
  • POOR INTRAREGIONAL COMMINICATIONS
  • CULTURAL FRAGMENTATION (COMPLEX ETHNIC, LINGUISTIC, AND RELIGIOUS PATTERNS)
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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
  • A SYSTEMATIC FIELD OF GEOGRAPHY THAT FOCUSES ON THE SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
  • KEY TERMS
    • SUPRANATIONALISM
    • BALKANIZATION
    • IRREDENTISM
    • GEOPOLITICS
    • DEVOLUTION
  • FRIEDRICH RATZEL (1844 - 1904)
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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
(CONTINUED)
  • STATE TERRITORIAL MORPHOLOGY
    • COMPACT- CAMBODIA
    • PROTRUDED (EXTENDED)- THAILAND
    • ELONGATED (ATTENUATED)- VIETNAM
    • FRAGMENTED- PHILLIPINES
    • PERFORATED- SOUTH AFRICA
  • THE IMPACT OF SHAPE?
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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
(CONTINUED)
  • BOUNDARIES
    • DEFINITION VS DELIMITATION VS DEMARCATION
    • MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS
      • GEOMETRIC
      • PHYSIOGRAPHIC
      • ANTHROPOGEOGRAPHIC
    • GENETIC CLASSIFICATIONS
      • ANTECEDENT
      • SUBSEQUENT
      • SUPERIMPOSED
      • RELICT
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ANTECEDENT
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SUPERIMPOSED
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RELICT BOUNDARY
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SUBSEQUENT BOUNDARY
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SHAPES
OF
STATES
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COMPACT STATE
  • A POLITICO-GEOGRAPHIC TERM TO DESCRIBE A STATE THAT POSSESSES A CIRCULAR, OVAL, OR RECTANGULAR TERRITORY IN WHICH THE DISTANCE FROM THE CENTER TO ANY POINT ON THE BOUNDARY EXHIBITS LITTLE VARIATION
  • CAMBODIA, URUGUAY, AND POLAND ARE EXAMPLES.
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ELONGATED STATE
  • A STATE WHOSE TERRITORY IS DECIDEDLY LONG AND NARROW; ITS LENGTH IS AT LEAST SIX TIMES GREATER THAN ITS AVERAGE WIDTH


  • CHILE, VIETNAM, AND LAOS ARE CLASSIC EXAMPLES.
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PROTRUDED STATE
  • A TYPE OF TERRITORIAL SHAPE THAT EXHIBITS A NARROW, ELONGATED LAND EXTENSION LEADING AWAY FROM THE MAIN BODY OF THE TERRITORY
  • THAILAND AND MYANMAR ARE LEADING EXAMPLES.
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FRAGMENTED STATE
  • A STATE WHOSE TERRITORY CONSISTS OF SEVERAL SEPARATED PARTS, NOT A CONTIGUOUS WHOLE


  • THE INDIVIDUAL PARTS MAY BE ISOLATED FROM EACH OTHER BY THE LAND AREA OF OTHER STATES OR BY INTERNATIONAL WATERS.
  • PHILIPPINES AND INDONESIA ARE ALSO EXAMPLES.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA -I
  • (CHAPTER 10: 486-501)