alt Hacker NewsEngland is a country, and if you're reading this on the BBC they most certainly are using the correct terminology.
It is not a sovereign country, but instead is a part of the constituents comprising the UK state.
England is a country, and if you're reading this on the BBC they most certainly are using the correct terminology.
It is not a sovereign country, but instead is a part of the constituents comprising the UK state.
OK, so now we have the following terms: State, nation, country, sovereign country.
For example in Germany one would say there are 16 states, but one wouldn't say that there are 16 countries. Never heard anyone claim that. So state seems to be different from country, at least here. Would people in the UK say that Scotland or Wales are "nations"? Or is at least that term very clearly only for units that could participate under a flag in lets say the olympics? (I assume here, that Scotland and Wales are not separately competing, but are under UK flag.)