It got identified with its four essential elements: Population, Territory, Government and Sovereignty. In the sphere of international relations its four basic credentials Nationalism, Territorial Integrity, Sovereignty and Legal Equality got fully recognized.

Terms in this set (12)

• Geography. advantages/ disadvantages because of location.
• people. run country, stable population.
• Resources. things to trade and to use in your own country.
• Language and culture. communication and history.
• Government.
• Oligarchy.
• Absolute Monarchy (Absolutism)
• Totalitarianism.

Terms in this set (3)

• a. a central government strong enough to defend itself against its enemies and keep order within its borders.
• b. a nations people are set off from neighboring groups by: religion, language, traditions, and way of life.
• c. the people are loyal and proud to be in the group: patriotism or nationalism.

A nation state must have a shared national identity, physical borders, and a single government. This makes it different from other forms of states, like the city-state, which did not have firm borders, and kingdoms, which did not have a shared culture.

A state is a territory with its own institutions and populations. A nation is a large group of people who inhabit a specific territory and are connected by history, culture, or another commonality. A nation-state is a cultural group (a nation) that is also a state (and may, in addition, be a sovereign state).

: 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.

• commonwealth,
• country,
• land,
• nation,
• sovereignty.
• (also sovranty),
• state.

For others, the nation existed first, then nationalist movements arose for sovereignty, and the nation-state was created to meet that demand. Some “modernization theories” of nationalism see it as a product of government policies to unify and modernize an already existing state.

France

South Korea is a country in Eastern Asia occupying the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. It borders the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and North Korea. South Korea has a mixed economic system which includes a variety of private freedom, combined with centralized economic planning and government regulation.