User talk:MG650

Country/Nation/State/Nation State

Since this seems to be confusing people. Here are the definitions from an Oxford dictionary

Nation: Community of people of mainly common descent, language, history...

Country: The territory of a nation...

State: Organized community under one government...

So broadly we have definitions for groups of people, for territory and for politcal entities. These distictions are useful and should be maintained. In the case of Scotland the use of Country and possibly State are clearly appropriate. The use of nation is clearly not; this would apply to the Scots and would include people living in most countries around the world as many Scots have emigrated. The above has led to my many edits of the first sentence of the Scotland entry. No one has seemed to come up with a reason for the repeated reverts to the use of nation. MG650 16:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

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