ABSTRACT
International law defines as the province of a state that part of the earth which is subject to the government of the state. For political geography, on the other hand, all of those data are important which concern the extension of the jurisdiction of the state over adjacent seas and those various obligations which, in favoring one state, penetrate and violate the territory of another. Inventories of states which depict the territory of the state as a stable, fully fixed object come to this dogmatic and sterile conception primarily through disregard of such ruptures. Such conditions are closely related to the spatial growth of states for two reasons. First because they appear at the periphery where such growth usually takes place and for which they pave the way, and second because they are the sign either of preparations for a growth process.
