Section: Human Geography

4) A state which places most power in the hands of a central government is a: 

1. federal state
2. fragmented state
3. nation state
4. unitary state

A unitary state is a state governed as one single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (subnational units) exercise only powers that their central government chooses to delegate. The majority of states in the world have a unitary system of government.