What is a country?

[Anonymous]

Foods

Borders / land

People

Economy

Something else

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someone asked Mr Beast what America is and he said "the biggest economy on earth". what a loser

[RebelinSteel]

International law defines sovereign states as having a permanent population, defined territory, a government not under another, and the capacity to interact with other states.

https://academic.oup.com/book/581/chapter-abstract/135309387?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

A country is basically that, also as an add on to the above.

The Montevideo Convention in Article 3 implies that a sovereign state can still be a sovereign state even if no other countries recognise that it exists

[DrPepper12]

The nation-state is a recent artificial creation differing from kingdoms empires confederations etc. It's all of the things that you said and much more.

[menina]

Everything you mentioned makes a land a country. Then there's history, language or languages, politics, culture and traditions.

[Knightwatch27]

It encompasses all the first three as well as culture, tradition, shared language.

[Asker]

Not economy?

[Knightwatch27]

Economies are not fixed/static.

[Reichsadler-ss]

People makes culture, economy and land a country.

[avery58]

1. Land 2. People