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sovereignty
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Is America a Country? The Legal, Political, and Cultural Truth
Legal scholars and diplomats distinguish between a country (a sovereign political entity) and a nation (a cultural or ethnic group). America fits the former...
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The Exact Count: How Many Countries in Our Earth?
For decades, the conventional wisdom was that there were 195 countries —the number of UN member states plus the Vatican City and the Holy See. Yet this figure...
