State

State most commonly refers to:

  • State (polity), a centralized political organization that imposes and enforces rules over a population within a territory.
  • Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international law, commonly referred to as a "country"
  • Nation state, a state (usually sovereign) in which the great majority identify as a single culture (often defined as an ethnic group)
  • Constituent state, a type of political subdivision of a nation
    • Federated state, a constituent state that is part of a federal model and shares sovereignty with the federal government
"States" redirects here. For the disambiguation page about "The States", see The States (disambiguation).
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