[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Omah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom



The UK does not have a team at the Olympics :



The British Isles are made up of several overlapping components :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...diagram_15.svg



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termino..._British_Isles

It's rather more complicated than the simple country/state analogy

1 seat at the UN. The UK is a "soverign state" so what does that mean. lol if the UK wants to be called a state, does that mean you think all 50 of the American states are individual countries too??

we are playing semantics. it's boring.

The UKGBNI is a country, just like the USA, or the Soviet Union(r.i.p.) or the PRC(people's republic of china)