3 ms·

That's weird, my passport doesn't say "country" on it anywhere. Where does yours? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikip

• walthamstow 4y ago
  It says the name of the issuing country on the front, like every passport in the world, and inside it says that the issuing country is GBR, the ISO code for the UK. There is no Scottish passport, nor an ISO country code for it, because it isn't a country. Any justification you have for calling Scotland a country would mean that Georgia and Massachusetts are also countries. US states are actually are more country-like than Scotland, they have a constitutional right to self-government, and have semi-sovereign powers even within the union. Does Scotland? I think we have seen recently that it does not. The only evidence or basis you have come up with so far is that you were taught in school that Scotland is a country, which I find to be a very weak argument. (To be clear, England is not a country either.)
  • adammarples 4y ago
    I guess you are deferring (appealing?) to the authority of the International Organization for Standardization and their list of country codes then, which is fair enough, but not really to the Passport Office, which doesn't make mention of the word country in their passports and is not really weighing in on this semantic dispute, despite using an ISO code. I'm not trying to advance any evidence that Scotland etc. "really are" countries, rather that it is very common usage of the word, per wikipedia it seems that even the Prime Minister's office and the ONS use it, as does more or less everyone I know, that is all.