How a boundary will be maintained, how it will be function, and what goods and people will be allowed to cross
Administered boundary
When a boundary separates natural resources that may be used by both countries
Allocational boundary dispute (resource dispute)
Coastal states have limited sovereignty for up to 24 nautical miles were they can enforce laws on customs, immigration, and sanitation
Contiguous zone
The injuries that have checkpoints were a passport or visa are required to enter the
Controlled borders
Established by a legal document, such as a tree, that divides one entity from another
Defined boundary
Is drawn on a map by a cartographer to show the limits of space
Delimited boundary
Is one identified by physical objects placed on the landscape, fences, walls
Demarcated
When two or more parties to occur over how to interpret the legal documents or maps that identify the boundaries
Definitional boundary
Territories are a part of a state, yet geographically separated from the main states by one or more countries
Exclaves
Coastal states can explore, extract, minerals, and managed natural resources up to to 100 nautical miles
Exclusive economic zone (EEZ)
Water beyond any country’s EEZ that is open to all states
High seas
A type of expansionism when one country seeks to annex territory, where it has cultural ties to part of the population or historical claims to the land
Irredentism
Boundaries disputes that center on where a boundary should be, how it is delimited, or demarcated
Locational boundary disputes (territorial disputes)
Centers not on where a boundary is, but how it functions
Operational Boundary dispute (functional dispute)
Are states, territories, or parts of a state of a territory that are completely surrounded by the territory of another stater
Political enclaves
A place In between two very different and contentious regions
Shatterbelt
Control nearly 30% of all oceans and seas in their land mass
Small island developing state (SIDS)
This area extends of nautical miles of sovereignty where commercial vessels may pass, but non commercial vessels may be challenged
Territorial swa
The last half of the 20th century were water boundaries; signed between 1973-1982
United Nations convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
A count of the population
Census
Dispersing to several districts to prevent a majority
Caracking
Using spatial thinking, techniques and tools to analyze elections and voting patterns
Electoral geography
People of a country who are eligible to vote, or to vote for leaders in each district to govern on their behalf
Electorate
The drawing of boundaries fo political districts by the party in power to protect or increase its power
Hijacking
