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Revision 9 . . June 27, 2001 8:26 pm by Larry Sanger
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A country is a geographical area and an independent political entity with its own government, administration, laws, often a constitution, police, military, tax rules, and people?.
A country, or nation state, is a geographical area and an independent political entity with its own government, administration, laws, often a constitution, police, military, tax rules, and people?. For the history of the development of the modern nation state, see nation state.

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Note: This would be a definition of a nation state. A country could be a part of a nation state with a distinct history or culture: Wales and Scotland both are sometimes called countries, even though they are not nation states.
Sometimes, parts of nation states with a distinct history or culture are called "countries": Wales and Scotland both are sometimes called countries, even though they are not nation states.

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See countries of the world
See countries of the world

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