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<noinclude>
[[en-II:state]] [[ar-II:محافظة]] [[de-II:Bundesland]] [[fr-II:province]] [[it-II:provincia]] [[ja-II:]] [[pt-II:estados]] [[ru-II:Штаты]] [[zh-II:州]]  
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Latest revision as of 06:38, 5 February 2010

State  (STATE)


A country 1 is usually the territory (301-2) of a people 2 (cf. 333-3) or a nation 2. Persons belonging to a nation share, in general, a common culture. A state 3 is a political body. The term may be used in two different senses: most commonly a state is a body possessing full sovereignty in its territory and over its inhabitants. However, a number of federations 4 of federal states 4 are divided into smaller units which are also called states 5 and whose sovereignty is not absolute (e.g. in the United States of America and Australia). The term territory 6 (301-2) is generally used for a geographical area, but it is occasionally used to denote a political unit which has been settled relatively recently. A distinction is sometimes made between self-governing territories 7 and non-self-governing territories 8.

  • 2. Nation, n. - national, adj.

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