Geographical Entity Ontology

In some cases, geopolitical entities possess uninhabited geographical regions. However, it is that case that it controls the movement of people in and out of those regions, and its laws apply to those regions.

taken over by GEO_0000000401

examples: Northern Ireland, Florida

Typically, the common feature is that the dependency does not conduct foreign affairs, and relegates this authority to the sovereign state. But otherwise, it is largely or completely autonomous relative to the administrative subdivisions. Examples include Puerto Rico (U.S.), Guam (U.S.), Greenland (Denmark), French Polynesia (France), and Falkland Islands (United Kingdom).

Examples: all the major administrative subdivisions of the United States (which is different from the U.S. itself), all the major administrative subdivisions with a bicameral legislature, all the major administrative subdivisions with a judiciary, etc.

Examples: all the dependencies of the United States, all of the dependencies whose territory is located in the Carribean Sea, French Overseas Collectivities, Biritish Crown Dependencies.

per the definition of 'contiguous' of "being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point", these land masses share boundaries with other land masses that are part of the same continent, and thus are not surrounded by water like an island.

At some point, we need an 'adjacent to' relation if BFO doesn't provide it.

One question is whether this class encompasses fiat parts of islands.

It cannot be a part of the island, for example, that is below water.

We note that the term 'geography' is also applied to the Earth's moon, Mars, Venus, and possibly even other moons and planets in our own solar system and beyond.

Thus, we are attempting to define things generally enough that they could be reused for the geographical entities/features on the Moon, Mars, other planets, exoplanets, other natural satellites (a.k.a moons), asteroids, etc.

Examples: private bond-rating agencies such as Moody's Investors Service, International Chamber of Commerce, Worldwide Responsible Apparel Manufacturing Principles, Forest Stewardship

Examples: Internaltion Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Oxfam, CARE, Doctors Without Borders, World Wildlife Fund, Transparency International, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Save the Children.

examples: North American Free Trade Argreement [NAFTA] , Universal Postal Union [UPU], Oragnaization of American States [OAS], World Bank), Organization of Petroleum exporting countries [OPEC] United Nations [UN[, The World Trade Organization [WTO], The World Health Organization [WHO], UNICEF

Per Wikipedia, the word 'nation' does not always refer to soverign states. For example, the "nation of Islam".

IMPORTANT: The label "geopolitical organization" was previously used for OMRSE_00000044 (governmental organization). "geopoli organization" is a label for a new and different class.

Examples: all the dependencies of the United States, all of the dependencies whose territory is located in the Carribean Sea, French Overseas Collectivities, Biritish Crown Dependencies.

Examples: all the major administrative subdivisions of the United States (which is different from the U.S. itself), all the major administrative subdivisions with a bicameral legislature, all the major administrative subdivisions with a judiciary, etc.

examples: all the sovereign states in North America, all the sovereign states with a GDP below or exceeding a particular quantity of money, all the sovereign states with a constitutional monarchy, all the sovereign states who belong to the U.N. (which is different than the U.N. itself), etc.

latitude and longitude are key subtypes

Every latitude and longitude measurement is with respect to a geodetic datum. Most common ones in use are NAD83 and WGS84.

Sovereignty, in the legal sense, is acquired by a state upon receiving recognition by the international community. However, without specifying that this recognition can only be acquired through full membership to the United Nations, a non-arbitrary standard would be difficult, if not impossible, to come by since there are a good many sovereign states whose sovereignty is not explicitly recognized by one or more states. Given that the de facto criteria for sovereignty must be achieved prior to membership to the UN General Assembly and that every member therein is considered to be "international recognized," full membership to the UN is a sufficient criterion for de jure sovereignty. This can be further justified by noting that, in cases where UN member X claims to not recognize the sovereign status of UN member Y, the diplomatic and political behavior of member X towards Y nevertheless tacitly implies that it recognizes Y's sovereignty.

Relational qualities are qualities that hold between multiple entities. Normal (monadic) qualities such as the shape of a eyeball exist purely as a quality of that eyeball. A relational quality such as sensitivity to light is a quality of that eyeball (and connecting nervous system) as it relates to incoming light waves/particles.

MIREOT'd into GEO to represent the area quality of a geographical region, including land area and water area.

e.g., the EU