Types of States and Nations

A state that contains two or more cultural groups or different nations of people with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities. Examples: Great Britain, Canada, Russia, Belgium, Bosnia

• autonomous region

• multinational state

• stateless nation

• nation

A large group of people who are united by common cultural characteristics, such as language and ethnicity, or shared history.

• stateless nation

• nation-state

• nation

• multinational state

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied, predominantly by a particular nation of people. Examples: Japan, France, Germany, Israel

• nation-state

• stateless nation

• multistate nation

• multinational state

People with a shared culture and spread over several states, may need or want a nation at some point. Examples: The Jewish people, Koreans, Germans (as a people). What are they called?

• multistate nation

• autonomous region

• self determination

• nation-state

An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state. Examples: The Kurds, Palestinians, Catalans and Basque. What is this group referred to as?

• multinational state

• semi-autonomous region

• nation-state

• stateless nation

Area where a group has some type of political autonomy. These regions have a degree of power and self-determination, but not fully like the autonomous regions. Examples: Native American Reservations, Hong Kong, Basque & Catalonia, Kurdistan. What is this area called?

• autonomous region

• self determination

• sovereignty

• semi-autonomous region

An area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority. Examples: Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat, owned by Denmark), Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), Gaza Strip and West Bank (Israel / Palestine). How is this area defined?

• semi-autonomous region

• autonomous region

• stateless nation

• nation-state

An independent state with the ability to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states. Examples: All 193 members of the United Nations, The U.S., Mexico, Philippines

• sovereignty

• colonialism

• self determination

• stateless nation

Political independence or the ability of a government to determine their own course, of their own free will. Sovereignty. A government free from external control. State. Examples: The desire for a larger Serb state that led to WWI, Decolonization of Africa, Catalonia, Kurdistan, South Sudan, Barbs

• self determination

• nation state

• colonialism

• imperialism

An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principle in another country. Similar to imperialism. Examples: Scramble for Africa, British Empire, French Indochina

• colonialism

• supranationalism

• sovereignty

• devolution