state

organised community living under a system of government; either a sovereign state, constituent state, or federated state
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state

Summary

state is an administrative territorial entity type[1]. state ranks in the top 0.58% of administrative_territorial_entity_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,562 views/month, #1 of 173).[2]

Key Facts

  • state's instance of is recorded as administrative territorial entity type[3].
  • orb is named after state[4].
  • state is a type of juridical person[5].
  • state is a type of political territorial entity[6].
  • state is a type of subject of international law[7].
  • state is a type of former or current state[8].
  • state is part of nation state[9].
  • state's Commons category is recorded as States[10].
  • state's said to be the same as is recorded as country[11].
  • state comprises embassy[12].
  • state's topic's main category is recorded as Category:State (polity)[13].
  • state's topic's main category is recorded as Category:States[14].
  • state's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • state's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • state's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • state's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox country[18].
  • state's main Wikidata property is recorded as P17[19].
  • state's owner of is recorded as public treasury[20].
  • state's owner of is recorded as state property[21].
  • state's different from is recorded as constituent country[22].
  • state's different from is recorded as federated state[23].
  • state's different from is recorded as nationality[24].
  • state's different from is recorded as country[25].
  • state's different from is recorded as self-proclaimed state[26].
  • state's different from is recorded as sovereign state[27].

Body

Definition and Type

state's instance of is recorded as administrative territorial entity type[3]. Recorded subclass of include juridical person[5], political territorial entity[6], subject of international law[7], and former or current state[8].

Origins

orb is named after state[4].

Use and Application

state comprises embassy[12]. state is part of nation state[9].

Influence

Things named for state include sovereign state[28].

Why It Matters

state ranks in the top 0.58% of administrative_territorial_entity_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,562 views/month, #1 of 173).[2] state has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] state is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for state include sovereign state[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by political science, political arithmetic
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, WikiProject Human rights, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of juridical person, political territorial entity, subject of international law +1
    Instance of administrative territorial entity type
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2538, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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