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England and Scotland are separate countries, the UK is a federation of them both.
by venzaspa 2mo ago
England and Scotland are separate countries, the UK is a federation of them both.
- dghf 2mo agoPoint of pedantry: federation usually implies a federal government, and the UK is a unitary state.
- tavavex 2mo agoThe UK is a unitary state. Even if it were a federation, the equivalent to your statement is something like "Ontario and Quebec are separate provinces, and Canada is a federation that includes them". These are by definition subdivisions of a country. Just because the UK has a special definition of the word country that doesn't apply to anything else doesn't make England or Scotland rise to the nationhood that's implied by this word in every other case.