I'm just wondering. Is there a difference? What are the differences? Examples of countries that use each term and why they are used?
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Well "State" was once completely interchangeable with the word nation, which is why the US used that term for the individual colonies, which in the beginning practically were separate nations with a loose bond of a higher government (think even less functional EU). [Edited on 12.21.2011 7:21 PM PST]