Unformatted text preview: The Dominican Republic is a compact state due
to the fact that it could not be fragmented,
prorupted, perforated, or elongated. It couldn't be
any of these types of states because it isn't a
long strip like elongated would be, it doesn't
surround another state like perforated does, it
isn't prorupted since it would have an extension
to a source, and it isn't fragmented because
there aren't little islands big enough and far
away enough. The positives of the Dominican
Republic being a compact state is that it is
easier for its unitary government to rule since
the distance throughout the country doesn't vary
significantly as elongated would be. It is also...
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- Fall '19
