An autonomous political entity; a country like the United States or Canada.

A form of political organization under which a relatively homogeneous people inhabits a sovereign state; especially a state containing one as opposed to several nationalities.

a country whose population is comprised largely of a single ethnic group

a country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity

a political unit comprising a clearly defined territory and inhabited a substantial population, sufficiently well organized to posses a certain measure of power, the people considering themselves to be a nation with certain emotional and other ties

a relatively homogenous cultural group with its own political territory

a specific form of state (a geographical entity), which exists to provide a sovereign territory for a particular nation (an ethnic entity), and derives its legitimacy from that function

a state populated primarily by the people of one nationality

A political unit that claims sovereignty over a defined territory and jurisdiction over everyone in it.

a state which claims to represent a single homogeneous nation. It is mostly a rhetorical fiction and a political device, since there are no true nation-states (compare the most ethnically 'homogeneous' nation, South Korea, with the most ethnically heterogeneous, Tanzania)