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Thesaurus:country

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Noun edit

Sense: sovereign country as an organization or its territory edit

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Geographic parts

People

Organizations

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Sample country prefixes - see the appendix

See also edit

Notes edit

  • This entry is designed to cover two co-occurring entities: an organization and a territory. The organization has e.g. state organs as its parts, whereas the territory has locations as its parts. This duality extends to administrative divisions. By contrast, WordNet has these two entities neatly separated. From a linguistic thesaurus perspective, having these two merged seems justifiable, and corresponds to how e.g. France is defined using a single sense and not two separate senses, one for the organization and another one for the territory. Wikidata seems overengineered.
  • Only sovereign countries are included, not constituent countries such as England.

Further reading edit

  • “country” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
  • "country" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011. < political unit < organization < social group
  • "country" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011. (territory) < administrative district < district < region < location
  • Country in National Cancer Institute Thesaurus < Geographic Area < Conceptual Entity
  • Wikidata:Q6256: country < political territorial entity < administrative territorial entity < human-geographic territorial entity < territory < geographic region < geographical feature < geographic location < location
  • Wikidata:Q3624078: sovereign state < country, state
  • Wikidata:Q7275: state (a sovereign state, constituent state, or federated state) < organization, political territorial entity, administrative territorial entity
  • State/Nation-State, princeton.edu
  • Sovereignty, plato.stanford.edu
  • What is a country?, worlddata.info
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