political boundaries
Lines between nations
Political boundaries are the lines that separate one governmental jurisdiction from another—between countries, states, provinces, or other administrative units.
Unlike natural boundaries such as rivers or mountain ranges, political boundaries are human constructs, often drawn through negotiation, war, or colonial decree.
They determine where laws change, which government has authority, and who qualifies as citizen or foreigner: The political boundaries of Eastern Europe were redrawn after World War I.
- fenceBoundary structure between properties
- buffer zoneNeutral area between rivals
- mountainTall natural landmass
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- riverLarge flowing watercourse
electoral district · checkpoint · ancestral land · partition · exclusion zone · sovereignty · demilitarized zone · disputed territory · frontiers · extraterritoriality · desert · strait · coastline · maps · iron curtain · borders · state line · colonial
- African mapsNorth Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, sub-Saharan
- boundary mapsnational borders, demarcation line, demarcation, demilitarized zone, buffer zone
- Caribbean geographyHaiti, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola, Santo Domingo, Port-au-Prince
- South Asia mapsphysical map, terrain map, elevation map, topographic map, Maharashtra
- Thai mapsregional maps, city plans, street maps, highway maps, tourist maps
- geographycontinents, continent, oceans, countries, country
political boundariesnatural boundaries
Terrain-defined territorial limits
natural features · geographical boundaries · rivers · mountain ranges · coastlines
political boundariesopen borders
Unregulated international passage
borderlessness · freedom of movement · common markets · free trade zones