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Is Scotland a state or a country?

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state (an area with its own territory, government and people which may or may not lie within the authority of a larger state or federal union)
country
country (sovereign state or former sovereign state whose territory is still internationally recognised as a political or cultural entity)
Is Scotland, the constituent country of the United Kingdom an instance of the class state (an area with its own territory, government and people which may or may not lie within the authority of a larger state or federal union) or the class country (sovereign state or former sovereign state whose territory is still internationally recognised as a political or cultural entity)?

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Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This would make Scotland the 113th largest country by population if it were a sovereign state. Although Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland it is not the largest city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland
Scotland is Not an Independent Country
Find out why Scotland does not meet the definition of an independent country since it fails on six of the eight criteria necessary for country or nation-state status.
http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/scotlandnot.htm
Country, State, Nation - Definition of Country, State, and Nation
... independent country and find out the difference between a country, state ... (Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England are not countries.) A "state" (with a lower-case "s") is ...
http://geography.about.com/cs/politicalgeog/a/statenation.htm
Is scotland a country or a state? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers
http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/scotlandnot.htm?iam=metaresults&terms=airfare+to+scotland
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006020108404
Is Scotland a state
It is Now. Scotland is a constitutent country, which means it is a country within a country. It shall still be a state after it acheives independence, but not a state like Ohio ...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_Scotland_a_state

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