constituent country

Definitions

1. 1

   Any country that is a subdivision of a larger sovereign state.

   • the constituent countries of the Kingdom of Denmark
   • We were presented with the Soviet situation first — with the question of whether to go the clean slate route or to require that each constituent country coming out of the breakup of the Soviet Union continue with all treaty obligations.
   • Denmark is a constitutional monarchy. … The kingdom also comprises 2 autonomous constituent countries in the Atlantic, neither of which are EU members: the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
2. 2

   A sovereign country as a member of a larger organization.

   • European Union An economic union with the principal objectives of free movement of goods, capital, and labor. The constituent countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, ...
   • Collectively, the EU and its constituent countries are the world's leading donor of humanitarian aid.

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