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Originally Posted by jman220
Scotland is a country?
I think a lot of people associate sovereignty with the word "country" when there are, like Greenland/the members of the UK/the members of the
Netherlands, groups of countries that make up a sovereign state.
Those people aren't
wrong, like, when someone says "there are X countries in the world" they're not counting constituent countries separately. It's more like, you
can use the word country to talk about non-sovereign entities, it's just uncommon and wonky.