I'm not sure how well this is known outside Europe but both Wales and Scotland have their own parliaments and yes they're part of the(so called) Unitied Kingdom.This doesn't stop them being countries in their own right.
Peterkro said:I'm not sure how well this is known outside Europe but both Wales and Scotland have their own parliaments and yes they're part of the(so called) Unitied Kingdom.This doesn't stop them being countries in their own right.
Peterkro said:I'm not sure how well this is known outside Europe but both Wales and Scotland have their own parliaments and yes they're part of the(so called) Unitied Kingdom.This doesn't stop them being countries in their own right.
I kow this may be hard to get your head around but yes they are individual countries in Spains case add Catalonina and Galicia.A country has a long and verifiable history in most cases its own language it has historical borders.In the case of the Scots they have more in common with the Irish and French than they do with England.If Queen Elizabeth 11 is Queen of Scotland who was Queen Elizebeth the 1.Roll on the Scottish breakaway.miloblithe said:Yes, but in terms of international perspective that makes them autonomous regions (at best), not countries. Their parliaments still answer to London. I mean, are Bashkortistan, Tuva, Chechnya, etc. in the Russian Federation countries? Is the Basque region in Spain a country? Is Kurdistan in Iraq (or Turkey) a country?
iGAV said:
miloblithe said:Yes, but in terms of international perspective that makes them autonomous regions (at best), not countries. Their parliaments still answer to London. I mean, are Bashkortistan, Tuva, Chechnya, etc. in the Russian Federation countries? Is the Basque region in Spain a country? Is Kurdistan in Iraq (or Turkey) a country?
Abstract said:So.......do you think Scotland and Wales are countries or not? Sort of a mixed reaction by you.
miloblithe said:I think you just volunteered. Offhand though, my not-surprising observation is lots of Europe and US, not so much South America and especially Africa.
puckhead193 said:i'm 19 and i've been to: in no picticular order
US (live here)
Australia
BELGIUM
Itaily
France
Canada
Israel
Egypt
HOLLAND -
UK (london)
SWITZERLAND
Bahamas
Netherlands
...i think thats it, not bad for a 19 yr. old.![]()
Actually, Wales is a PrincipalityPeterkro said:I'm not sure how well this is known outside Europe but both Wales and Scotland have their own parliaments and yes they're part of the(so called) Unitied Kingdom.This doesn't stop them being countries in their own right.
miloblithe said:Just because it will annoy gwuMACaddict, how many countries have you all been to? Just to lay the ground rules:
- transit countries don't count (like if you were just in the airport or passed through on a train but didn't get off).
- Countries that no longer exist can be counted twice as long as the change involves a border shift. You can count East Germany, West Germany and Germany; Russia and the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Slovenia, but not Zaire and the Democratic Republic of Congo. You also have to have been there when the country was in existence. You can't count East Germany if you've only been there since reunification.
- Microstates do count, even the Vatican
- Scotland, Wales, England, and Northern Ireland all count because they have World Cup teams, the Basques get no such nod.
Also include your age.