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>This article describes a type of political entity. Country is also a short form for the countryside or the country music genre. A country is a geographical area that connotes an independent political entity, with its own government, administration, laws, often a constitution, police, military, tax rules, and population, who are one another's countrymen. "Country" is the English equivalent of French pays, Compare the concept of nation, below.
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