The word "country" is often colloquially used to refer to sovereign states, although it means, originally, only a geographic region, and subsequently its meaning became extended to the sovereign polity which controls the geographic region.

Contents

• 1 Definition
• 2 Recognition
  • 2.1 Constitutive theory
  • 2.2 Declarative theory
  • 2.3 State practice
  • 2.4 De facto and de jure states
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 Further reading
• 6 External links

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