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Every English person I know thinks that England, Scotland and Wales are countries. It's what we were taught in school. I find it odd that you find the opposite.
I think the opposite because I live in a country called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That is what it says on my passport.
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I think the opposite because I live in a country called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That is what it says on my passport.
That's weird, my passport doesn't say "country" on it anywhere. Where does yours? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdo...
There is no Scottish passport, nor an ISO country code for it, because it isn't a country.
Any justification you have for calling Scotland a country would mean that Georgia and Massachusetts are also countries.
US states are actually are more country-like than Scotland, they have a constitutional right to self-government, and have semi-sovereign powers even within the union. Does Scotland? I think we have seen recently that it does not.
The only evidence or basis you have come up with so far is that you were taught in school that Scotland is a country, which I find to be a very weak argument.
(To be clear, England is not a country either.)
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That's weird, my passport doesn't say "country" on it anywhere. Where does yours? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdo...
It says the name of the issuing country on the front, like every passport in the world, and inside it says that the issuing country is GBR, the ISO code for the UK. There is no Scottish passport, nor an ISO country code for it, because it isn't a country. Any justification you have for calling Scotland a country would mean that Georgia and Massachusetts are also countries. US states are actually are more country-like…