Pedantry squared FYI, but because the United States calls their provinces "states", it's helpful to disambiguate by adding the word "nation". Furthermore, sinc

Pedantry squared FYI, but because the United States calls their provinces "states", it's helpful to disambiguate by adding the word "nation". Furthermore, since a nation is a group of people bound together by shared culture, values, religion, language, etc., while a state is a piece of land with a defined border, then nations and states are not necessarily the same thing. A "nation-state" is the intersection of the two, where cultural boundaries align with political and geographical boundaries, and not a redundant synonym of "state".