A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory. International law defines sovereign states as having a permanent population...

This is a list of countries by urbanization. There are two measures of the degree of urbanization of a population. The first, urban population, describes...

This gallery of sovereign state flags shows the national or state flags of sovereign states that appear on the list of sovereign states. For flags of other...

The Sovereign State: The Secret History of International Telephone and Telegraph is a non-fiction book by Anthony Sampson published on July 1, 1973, by...

A sovereign wealth fund (SWF), sovereign investment fund, or social wealth fund is a state-owned investment fund that invests in real and financial assets...

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recognition by other sovereign states Westphalian sovereignty – there is no other authority in the state aside from the domestic sovereign (such other authorities...

such as Colchis and Iberia, that formed the nucleus of the modern Georgian state. In the early fourth century, Georgians officially adopted Christianity...

A sovereign default is the failure or refusal of the government of a sovereign state to pay back its debt in full when due. Cessation of due payments (or...

Latin superānus, meaning 'above'. The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or head of state to head of municipal government or head of a chivalric...

nation-state is simply a large, politically sovereign country or administrative territory. A nation-state may be contrasted with: An empire, a political...

The types of sovereign state leaders in the Philippines have varied throughout the country's history, from heads of ancient chiefdoms, kingdoms and sultanates...

definitions of Europe, geographical or political. Fifty generally recognised sovereign states, Kosovo with limited, but substantial, international recognition...

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (Italian:...

This is a list of all sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate (TFR): the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing...

This armorial of sovereign states shows the coat of arms, national emblem, or seal for every sovereign state. Although some countries do not have an official...

is the sovereign state for purposes of international law. Depending on the constitutional structure of a particular federation, a federated state can hold...

colonial power) some authority normally exclusively retained by a sovereign state, usually in such fields as defence and foreign relations, while often...

population of 5.15 million people reside in the Greater Dublin Area. The sovereign state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, which is part of...

A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state. The specific naming of the head of state depends on the country's form...

A historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This...

A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority. The central government may create...

Classical Nahuatl: Huāxyacac [waːʃˈjakak] ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the...

such as a state, nation, or other political entity. When referring to a specific polity, the term "country" may refer to a sovereign state, states with...

states: Generally this contains non-sovereign territories that are recognized by the UN as part of some member state. Dependent territories. Other territories...

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Libre y Soberano de Baja California (English: Free and Sovereign State of Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of...

does not represent a fully autonomous sovereign state with its own institutions. The precise definition of quasi-state in political literature fluctuates...

France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed...

pronunciation: [ˈpweβla] English: colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the...