Nearly every national government on Earth utilizes some form of administrative division, but only a few countries specifically choose to call those divisions states. national government whose laws supersede state laws. states have a high degree of autonomy-they elect their own local leaders and are free to make their own laws-but they stop short of being sovereign, or self-ruling, states because they are part of a larger nation (the United States) and are beholden to the U.S.
Under its second definition, "state" is a type of administrative division, which is a portion of a country that has significant autonomy, but that is still part of a larger nation.įor example, U.S. Under the first definition, which is typically used in an international context, the word "state" is essentially interchangeable with "nation" or "country." For example, the individual countries that make up the United Nations are also called sovereign states. Part of this confusion lies in the fact that "state" has two distinctly different, but confusingly similar meanings. What is much less known is which other countries around the world also have states-or even the precise definition of a state in the first place. It is well known that the United States has 50 states.
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