cultural geography

Today we went over the test we took last week, I got a 93 on it so I was happy. We then started to talk about cultural geography, we started off with the difference between county, state, nation-state, and nations. We went over a list of traits that a place must have in order to be considered a country. We discussed how Somalia is not a country more then a failed state. Somalia does not have a strong economy, a transportation system, a government(public services and police), or sovereignty over their country. Class ended with a video of a cartoon naming all countries part of the UN in the early 90s. one country, Yugoslavia, had not had their civil war then and i noticed Nepal was not on the map.