Population

• Groups of people living in common territory

• Can be homogeneous or heterogeneous

• Stability comes from common language, culture, history and customs

Territory

• Land with recognizable boundaries

• Boarders that can be protected

Sovereignty

• Supreme and absolute power within its own territory

• Determines its own government, laws and policies

Government

• Politically organized• Agency in which the

state exerts its will and works to accomplish its goals