country
distinct territorial body or political entity
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Summary
country is an administrative territorial entity type[1]. country ranks in the top 1% of administrative territorial entity type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19,438 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Named after: land[3], side[4]
- Contains the administrative territorial entity: first-level administrative division[5]
- Subclass of: territory[6], political territorial entity[7]
- Commons category: Countries[8]
- Said to be the same as: state[9]
- Opposite of: rest of the world[10]
- Has part(s): territory[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Countries[12], Q9699162[13]
- Described at URL: https://www.whosonfirst.org/docs/placetypes/#country[14]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Countries[15]
- OpenStreetMap tag: place=country[16], admin_level=2[17]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox country[18], Template:Countries of Asia[19]
- Used by: by country[20]
- Main Wikidata property: P17[21], P495[22], P27[23], P1532[24]
- Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Country[25], https://schema.org/Country[26], http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#Country[27], http://www.loc.gov/mads/rdf/v1#Country[28], https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/Q349[29], http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/3166/#country[30], http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/CommonSenseMapping.owl#country[31]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C25464[32]
- Different from: nationality[33], state[34], government[35], sovereign state[36]
- Properties for this type: P17[37], P30[38], P150[39], P35[40], P36[41], P138[42], P463[43], P832[44], P237[45], P6[46], P122[47], P1082[48], P530[49], P856[50]
Why It Matters
country has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] country is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]