constituent country

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Pronunciation

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Noun

constituent country (plural constituent countries)

  1. Any country that has the status of being a subdivision of a larger sovereign state.
    The constituent countries of the Kingdom of Denmark.
    1. An administrative division of the United Kingdom, of which there are three: the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Wales. (Northern Ireland is a province).
    2. A land of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, of which there are four: the Netherlands proper (comprising its twelve European provinces and the three BES Islands of the Caribbean Netherlands: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba) and the three Caribbean island countries of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten.
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