state
organised community living under a system of government; either a sovereign state, constituent state, or federated state
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Summary
state is a social structure[1]. state draws 26,170 Wikipedia views per month (social structure category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: administrative territorial entity type[3]
- Named after: orb[4]
- Subclass of: juridical person[5], political territorial entity[6], subject of international law[7], former or current state[8]
- Part of: nation state[9]
- Commons category: States[10]
- Said to be the same as: country[11]
- Has part(s): embassy[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:State (polity)[13], Category:States[14]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox country[18]
- Main Wikidata property: P17[19]
- Equivalent class: https://dbpedia.org/ontology/State[20], https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=StateOrp[21]
- Owner of: public treasury[22], state property[23]
- Different from: constituent country[24], federated state[25], nationality[26], country[27], self-proclaimed state[28], sovereign state[29], government[30], Halth[31], state[32], nation[33], people[34]
- Properties for this type: P36[35], P625[36], P1001[37], P1082[38], P38[39], P47[40], P3075[41], P37[42], P35[43], P6[44], P706[45], P85[46], P112[47], P138[48]
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Influence
Things named for state include sovereign state[49].
Why It Matters
state has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] state is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]
Entities named for state include sovereign state[49].