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| | Message text A definition of a country from an online website. It was the first in the list when I used the search "Definition country" in Yahoo.
coun·try (kntr)
n. pl. coun·tries
1.
a. A nation or state.
b. The territory of a nation or state; land.
c. The people of a nation or state; populace: The whole country will profit from the new economic reforms.
2. The land of a person's birth or citizenship: Foreign travel is restricted in his country.
1.a. England is a nation and or state (as defined by wiki)
b. England as a territory is bounded by Scotland to the North, the North Sea to the East, the English Channel to the South and Wales and the Irish Sea to the West. (As defined by wiki)
c. We are populace. (60 million+ according to wiki)
2. I was born in England and I am therefore English - my final statement came from a position of knowledge and was not satirical or sarcastic.
Now before you reach for your keyboard, we have a Head of State - The Queen of England - and that status determines whether it is a Sovereign State or a region. Governors of a State, in the USA, are not the Head of State in the same legal sense that the President of the USA is. That is the defining difference.
The final point I made in my last post was that there is a great difference of opinion in how many Sovereign States there are in the world. This should be considered carefully. Dependent upon the source there ranges between 163 and 310 Sovereign States some include England some do not.
Like many things in life it would appear to be a point of view whether you accept that England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are Sovereign States or not.
I do as I was born and live in England and cross the border into Scotland to visit my family. You see I'm only English by an accident of birth. My mother was in England and it would appear that I was with her at the time when I was born.
And just to complete the family tree.
My mother was a member of the Anderson Clan as she was an Anderson before she married my father. (Scottish)
Her mother was from a family of Yorkshire Quakers (English)
My father's family are Irish, with my great grand-mother only speaking Gaelic.
My wife's mother is from Eindhoven (the Netherlands)
My wife's father is from London (England)
We were married in Cardiff (Wales)
And my name - Christie Gray
So I believe what it says on my birth certificate, that I was born in Sunderland, County Durham, England.
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