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: ''This article describes a type of political entity. Country is also a short form for the countryside or the country music genre.'' A country, a land, or a state, is a geography area that connotes an independent politics entity, with its own government, administration, laws, often a constitution, police, military, tax rules, and population, who are one another's ''countrymen''. "Country" is the English equivalent of French ''pays,'' Compare the concept of ''nation'', below. All internationally recognized states follow to some degree international standards in terms of the creation of official national symbols such as flags, and political rights such as citizenship. There are currently 192 countries recognized by the United Nations. Some countries are nation states – for example, France or Israel. In these nation states one particular nation is dominant. Other states, such as Canada, the People's Republic of China, Spain or the United Kingdom contain several nations (or, at least, some parts of the population call themselves a nation), in spite of some of them considering themselves as nation states. Sometimes, parts of states with a distinct history or culture are called "lands" or "countries": England, Scotland and Wales – the three nations on the island of Great Britain – are known as countries, even though they are effectively governed as "components" of the United Kingdom state. Tibet, an autonomous region of China, is similarly called a country in everyday speech. Ireland is also sometimes called a country, even though it consists of one nation-state (the Republic of Ireland) and one component of a different state (Northern Ireland). The terms country, nation, state and land are casually used as synonyms, but in a more strict usage they are distinguished: * ''country'' is the geographical area * ''nation'' designates a people, however ''national'' and ''international'' both confusingly refer as well to matters pertaining to what are strictly ''states'', as in ''national capital'', ''international law'' * ''state'' is about government, and an entity in international law * ''land'' may be used for "a country and its people" but also thought of as country belonging to a nation or a monarch Some states consist of non-contiguous parts, separated by land of one or more other states. The Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia is an example of such an ''exclave''; the Oecussi-Ambeno region of East Timor or Nagorno-Karabagh are others. The largest was Pakistan from 1947 to 1971 when the nation consisted of two parts, West Pakistan and East Pakistan, geographically separated by over a thousand miles, with India in between. Alaska is a U.S. state separated by about 500 miles (800 kilometers) of Canada territory from the Continental United States. Uzbekistan has seven small "islands" embedded within neighbouring Kyrgystan in the politically charged Fergana Valley. ==See also== *Nation state for the history of the development of the modern nation states *List of countries *Lists by country *Dependent area *List of dependent territories *List of subnational entities *ISO 3166, list of countries and corresponding international standard codes *List of country name etymologies *Enclave, includes a list of enclaves. *Territory *Border *Wilderness ==External links== *[http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html The CIA World Factbook] *[http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/ The US Department of State] ''Background notes'' on countries the US has relations with *[http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/ Lonely Planet] Clickable map and information on the world's countries *[http://www.nationmaster.com/ Nationmaster.com] Allows sorting countries on all kinds of statistics *[http://www.populationdata.net PopulationData.net] *[http://unstats.un.org/unsd/ United Nations statistics devision] *[http://www.worldbank.org/ The World Bank Group] Includes [http://www.worldbank.org/transport/rl_over.htm railway statistics] Human geography Politics bn:দেশ hi:देश nah:Altepetl simple:Country vi:Qu%E1%BB%91c gia zh-min-nan:Kok-ka

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Can someone find a listing for the countries of the world by the population=?? What is the SMALLEST country by its popolation? cannot be Malvinas... there must be sth even smaller :O user:Zisa :I heard it was the Vatican. ::Does Sealand count as a country? User:Lee M 03:36, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC) who's getting far too little sleep == True or false?? == True or false: the bottom of this article can be moved to Country (disambiguation). User:66.245.75.202 20:19, 7 May 2004 (UTC) :I say go for it. -- User:Dominus 07:44, 8 May 2004 (UTC) :Forget it (it could). -- User:Docu == PRC as a non-nation dominant state? == I am insterested in the statement about PRC as a non-nation state? Can someone explain more about it? Which part of its territory claimed itself as a nation? Many thanks.User:Mababa 04:57, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC) Well, we could start with Tibet. User:Ddye 20:38, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC) Several autonomous regions consisting of people who are of non-Chinese ethnicities.--User:BlueSunRed 18:24, 3 May 2005 (UTC) :...such as Sinkiang, otherwise Chinese Turkestan. ''Sinkiang'' means "new province" as I've been told. China is the world's oldest empire, but "empire" has disagreeable connotations, especially for those who profess Marxism, irregardless of whether they practice it. The article has to be discreet, so much so that Mababa's question comes quite naturally. --User:Wetman 18:31, 3 May 2005 (UTC) == someone please solve a friendly debate == we are arguing as to whether 'the commonwealth' would/could be defined as a place, particularly if we allow that the US is a place, being non-contiguous. that seems a bit too non-contiguous. i mean, GB and N Ireland aren't contiguous but i would say that's one place. but having territory spread all over the globe doesn't seem to fit. i think the distinction may be that with the US for example, there is one "central" contiguous area much larger than the non-contiguous territory, which is not the case for the Commonwealth. User:Ddye 20:41, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC) :The "commonwealth"— just as its name implies— means the "common wealth", the common good of all, that "public thing" that is Latin ''res publica'', which makes English ''republic''. The ''territory'' concerned is not inherently a logical necessity in the idea of "commonwealth", though contiguity does engender common aims, as a rule. --User:Wetman 18:41, 3 May 2005 (UTC) == Country Shapes == I have removed the following text that I find disturbing and irrelevant, although not necessarily false. Unless the are some analyses or consequences drawn from the shapes of lands (rather than countries, to my non-native English ear), and unless this categorization and these analyses are attributed to a notable authority within geography of some sorts, I hardly recognize this as unencyclopedic. :''There are five main shape-types for countries. The shape of a country can significantly affect it in terms of stability, access and so forth.'' :''Compact country: the country is small and genrally round in shape, e.g. Belgium and Cambodia.'' :''Fragmented country: the country is split into several parts either by sea or other countries, e.g. Denmark and Indonesia'' :''Perforated country: the country is performated by an enclaved country or enclave, e.g. Italy and South Africa'' :''Elongated country: the country is long and narrow, e.g. Burma and Chile'' :''Prorupted country (also known as protruding countries): the country contains a protrusion or 'finger' (panhandle), e.g. Afghanistan and Democratic Republic of the Congo'' Please consider Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not.
--User:Ruhrjung 00:36, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC) That itme about country morphology is the standard that you'll see if you look on the web. I was going to do a proper page for each type, with this acting more as a links page to those types. In the indivudual poages I will discuss the significance of the shape and so forth. I'll waity for a reply before adding them back. - sdrawkcab :I agree with the removal of this; it is irrelevant, and partly wrong; calling Denmark "fragmented" (and comparing it with Indonesia!) does not lead to anything meaningful. Claiming that shapes can affect stability and then naming Belgium and Cambodia in the same sentence is also quite, eh, funny. User:J�rgen 21:32, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Non-sovereign states== Are non-sovereign states such as Cayman Islands or Bermuda qualified to be called countries? — User:InstantnoodUser_talk:Instantnood 04:48 Mar 9 2005 (UTC) :Any territorial state is a "country" is the informal sense of "What country are you from?" --User:Wetman 05:41, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) Thank you. From my observation many non-sovereign states are listed as countries on many lists of countries (e.g. by area, by GDP) across Wikipedia. There was a debate over what are qualified as "country", at Talk:List_of_countries_that_only_border_one_other_country#Dispute_over_meaning_of_.22countries.22 and Talk:List of roads and highways. — User:InstantnoodUser_talk:Instantnood 06:24 Mar 9 2005 (UTC) == Ireland? == The article states that Ireland consists of two Things: the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland, a part of the UK. I thought that 'Ireland' was actually the Republic of Ireland's real name, and thus using 'Ireland' is actually correct, and not just a feature of colloquial speech! Is something more confusing happening, or should this be edited out? User:203.82.183.147 04:55, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) :No real need to mention Ireland at all, if it's any kind of ''problem'' at this article. --User:Wetman 11:26, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==About Tibet== A recent edit added the ''italicized'' phrase to the following: "Tibet, an autonomous region of China, is similarly called a country in everyday speech ''by people advocating its autonomy or independence''." This was unnecessarily contentious, and I've removed it. Fact is, the answer to "What is Tibet?" is "Tibet's a country" in everyday speech. --User:Wetman 17:20, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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== Usage == The template is used to display various information about a country. * Suggested country code modifiers, using format 'Country_code'-'Modifier': ** ''Country_code'' is the usual country identification code. ** ''Modifier'' is an identification of the specific flag. ** Examples: *** USA-48: the 48-star flag of the United States. *** USA-MN: the USA state of Minnesota. *** Russia-SFSR: Flag of Russia while member of USSR. *** Brazil-imperial: Imperial flag of Brazil. *** Brazil-1889: The temporary flag of Brazil for 5 days in 1889. * : : Flag icon with text linked to country page. (implemented with ''country|flag'') * country|flag: : Flag icon with text linked to country page. * : : Same as ''country|flagISO''. * country|flagISO: : Flag icon with text linked to country page; name is an ISO 3166-1 country code. * country|flagIOC: : Flag icon with text linked to country's Olympics page; name is an International Olympic Committee country code (see List of IOC country codes). ** Country code usage: **# An IOC country code should be used only for general reference to that country's Olympic activities. **#* At present an IOC country code will create a link to that nation's recent Olympics page, as there is no Olympics page for each country. **# Names such as flagIOC-2000 should be used for Games which have detailed coverage. This ensures that links will point to specific Games despite future changes. **# Use modified country codes such as RUS-SFSR for historical references to Games where a country's reference has changed (ie, different flag). ---- __TOC__ ----

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