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Noun
S: (n) state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic (a politically organized body of people under a single government) "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"
S: (n) country, state, land (the territory occupied by a nation) "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
S: (n) Haiti, Republic of Haiti (a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere)
S: (n) Dominican Republic (a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola)
S: (n) Jamaica (a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism)
S: (n) Barbados (a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former British colony; a popular resort area)
S: (n) East Timor (a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation)
S: (n) Fiji, Republic of Fiji (an independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands)
S: (n) Etruria (an ancient country in central Italy; assimilated by the Romans by about 200 BC)
S: (n) Australia, Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
S: (n) Micronesia, Federated States of Micronesia, TT (a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986)
S: (n) Tuvalu (a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978)
S: (n) Burkina Faso, Upper Volta (a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa; was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960)
S: (n) Indonesia, Republic of Indonesia, Dutch East Indies (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)
S: (n) Grenada (an island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea; an independent state within the British Commonwealth)
S: (n) New Zealand (an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery)
S: (n) Solomon Islands (the southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth)
S: (n) Rus (the medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev)
S: (n) Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)
S: (n) Russia, Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)
S: (n) Ukraine, Ukrayina (a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century)
S: (n) Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Turkmen, Turkmenia (a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991)
S: (n) Turkey, Republic of Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)
S: (n) nation, land, country (the people who live in a nation or country) "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"
S: (n) country, rural area (an area outside of cities and towns) "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"
S: (n) area, country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)) "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country"