geopolitics

English

Etymology

From geo- +‎ politics, calque of Swedish geopolitik, coined in 1900 by Rudolf Kjellén.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdʒiːəʊˈpɒlɪtɪks/, /dʒi.əˈpɒlɪtɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌdʒioʊˈpɑlətɪks/

Noun

geopolitics (uncountable)

1. The study of the effects of geography (especially economic geography) on international politics.
   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 189, number 6, archived from the original on 13 November 2025, page 18:

     Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

   • 2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time‎^[2], archived from the original on 11 December 2025:

     More than just a corporate juggernaut, Nvidia also has become an instrument of statecraft, operating at the nexus of advanced technology, diplomacy, and geopolitics.

Related terms

• astropolitics
• geoeconomics
• geopolitical
• geopolitically
• geopolitician
• political geography

Translations

the study of the effects of geography on international politics

• Albanian: gjeopolitikë (sq) f
• Armenian: աշխարհաքաղաքականություն (hy) (ašxarhakʻaġakʻakanutʻyun)
• Asturian: xeopolítica f
• Azerbaijani: geosiyasət
• Belarusian: геапалі́тыка f (hjeapalítyka)
• Bulgarian: геополи́тика (bg) f (geopolítika)
• Catalan: geopolítica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地緣政治學 / 地缘政治学 (zh) (dìyuán zhèngzhìxué), 地緣政治 / 地缘政治 (zh) (dìyuán zhèngzhì)

• Czech: geopolitika f
• Danish: geopolitik (da) c
• Dutch: geopolitiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: geopoliitika f
• Faroese: geopolitikkur
• Finnish: geopolitiikka (fi)
• French: géopolitique (fr) f
• Galician: xeopolítica (gl) f
• Georgian: გეოპოლიტიკა (geoṗoliṭiḳa)
• German: Geopolitik (de) f
• Greek: γεωπολιτική (el) f (geopolitikí)
• Hebrew: גֵּאוֹפּוֹלִיטִיקָה (he) f (geopolítika)
• Hindi: भूराजनीति f (bhūrājnīti)
• Hungarian: geopolitika (hu)
• Italian: geopolitica (it) f
• Japanese: 地政学 (ja) (ちせいがく, chiseigaku)
• Kazakh: геосаясат (geosaäsat)
• Khmer: ភូមិសាស្ត្រនយោបាយ (phuumisaah nĕəʼyoobaay)
• Korean: 지정학(地政學) (ko) (jijeonghak)
• Kyrgyz: геосаясат (geosayasat)
• Latvian: ģeopolitika f
• Lithuanian: geopolitika f
• Macedonian: геополитика f (geopolitika)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geopolitikk m

• Persian: ژئوپلیتیک (fa) (že'opolitik), جغراسیاست (fa) (joġrâsiyâsat)
• Polish: geopolityka (pl) f
• Portuguese: geopolítica (pt) f
• Romanian: geopolitică (ro) f
• Russian: геополи́тика (ru) f (geopolítika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: геополѝтика f

  Latin: geopolìtika (sh) f

• Slovak: geopolitika f
• Slovene: geopolitika f
• Spanish: geopolítica (es) f
• Swahili: siasa ya kijiografia
• Swedish: geopolitik (sv) c
• Tajik: геополитика (geopolitika), сиёсати ҷуғрофиёӣ (siyosat-i juġrofiyoyi)
• Thai: ภูมิรัฐศาสตร์ (th)
• Turkish: jeopolitik (tr)
• Ukrainian: геополі́тика f (heopolítyka)
• Urdu: جُغْرَافِیَائِی سِیَاسَتْ (juġrāfiyāī siyāsat)
• Uzbek: geosiyosat (uz)
• Vietnamese: địa chính trị (vi)