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| an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs |
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| the control if its internal affairs without interference by other states |
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| problems of defining states |
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| almost all habitable land belongs to a country today |
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| how many countries are there today? |
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| right of ethnic groups to govern themselves within sovereign states |
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| a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
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| contains 2 or more ethnic groups with traditions or self determination |
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| example of place that is difficult to classify because has not been clearly identified to a specific country |
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| kosovo declared independence from serbia |
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| in 2008 due ti ethnic cleansing and war crimes from some serb leaders |
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| according to china's govt ____ is not soveireign, but a part of china |
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| what is the largest landmass in the world that is not part of a sovereign state |
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| when did korea become 2 diff govts established by 2 superpowers? |
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| UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, signed by 158 countries, has defined waters extending various distances from the coastlines of states |
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| disputes between countries can be taken to a Tribunal for |
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| the Law of the Sea or to the international Court of Justice |
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| a country's exclusive economic zone extends 200 nautical miles from the coast |
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| a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being completely independent |
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| the effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on that territory |
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| which ppl controlled much of the world through colonialism |
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