This article describes country as a type of geographical or political entity. Country is also a short form for the countryside or the country music genre.

In political geography and international politics a country is a geographical territory. It is used casually in the sense of both the concept of nation (a cultural entity; see below) and state (a political entity). Some definitions tend to place it as meaning only state,http://geography.about.com/cs/politicalgeog/a/statenation.htm though general use is wider than this.http://www.countryreports.org/country.aspx?countryid=96&countryName=Greenland

There are dozens of other, non-sovereign territories which constitute a geographical country, but are not sovereign states. Several states have overseas dependencies, with territory and citizenry separate from their own. They are in some occasions listed together with states on lists of countries.

Characteristics of a country

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A country usually has its own government, administration and laws; and often a constitution, police, military, tax rules, and a population who are referred to as one another's countrymen. Together they form what Benedict Anderson referred to as an imagined community.

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BreathingEarth: CO2 Emissions, Birth & Death Rates by Country http://ow.ly/15SDUH
AshtonTrain (Ashton Train) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:46:57 -0000
BreathingEarth: CO2 Emissions, Birth & Death Rates by Country http://ow.ly/15SDUH
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MarinaStephenso (Marina Stephenson) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:45:27 -0000
typhoon tragic in the philippines. please help the country i lived in by calling amer.RED :18004357669 for food/clothing for the victims ...
Taking a break from the rich, ripe country smells of my garden...lovely broken-down cattle poo brought in by the bag-load!
Gowaybird (Michelle Wallace ) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:30:59 -0000
Taking a break from the rich, ripe country smells of my garden...lovely broken-down cattle poo brought in by the bag-load!
selling my fine art photos and showing my portrait work at the Country Fest in Stanley, NC today...come on by "close by" twitters!!
tompachecophoto (Tom Pacheco) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:25:43 -0000
selling my fine art photos and showing my portrait work at the Country Fest in Stanley, NC today...come on by "close by" twitters!!
Typhoon pepeng will be off the country by monday- pagasa -via gma flash report
JeromeTarriela (Jerome Tarriela) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:17:01 -0000
Typhoon pepeng will be off the country by monday- pagasa -via gma flash report
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buyleadalerts (Buy Lead Alerts) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:16:29 -0000
Buy Lead: Zinc to BUY: Zinc required by manufacturer in good quantity.City / Country: India http://bit.ly/mt0gf

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