No, in Europe we don’t use « state » because there is no federation. We use « country » and some countries does have subdivisions but apart Switzerland’s « cant

No, in Europe we don’t use « state » because there is no federation. We use « country » and some countries does have subdivisions but apart Switzerland’s « cantons », they are rarely as autonomous as US’s « states ». There are other countries with states in the world though, like India iirc.