%0 Journal Article %T Geospatial concepts of “border”, “borderlands”, “transborderlands”: modernization of the meaning %A Vlakh, Myroslava %A Mamchur, Olha %J Journal of Geography, Politics and Society %V Volume 7 (2017) %R 10.4467/24512249JG.17.010.6626 %N Issue 2 (2017) %P 9-16 %K concept, border, frontier, borderlands, region, transborderlands %@ 2084-0497 %D 2017 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/journal-of-geography-politics-and-society/artykul/geospatial-concepts-of-border-borderlands-transborderlands-modernization-of-the-meaning %X In this article, a terminological analysis of the ambivalent geospatial concepts of “border”, “border zone”, which are characterized by a long synonymic row and simultaneously have the semantic load of lines, strips of separation as well as interaction; with account of historical and genetic, natural and geographical, morphological and functional approaches, conceptual and terminological systems of “state border”, “borderlands”, “transborderlands” are analyzed; semantic shifts of the notions of “border”, “border zone”, “frontier” according to the world order tendencies are defined.