Nation

A nation is a type of social organization where a collective identity—a national identity—has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory, or society. Some nations are constructed around ethnicity (see ethnic nationalism) while others are bound by political constitutions (see civic nationalism).

Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.

political term for a state that is based around a nation

ethnic/national minority that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state

Nation-building is the process of constructing or structuring a national identity through the utilization of state power. The objective of nation-building is to achieve the unification of the population within the state, thereby ensuring its political stability and viability. According to Harris Mylonas, "Legitimate authority in modern national states is connected to popular rule, to majorities. Nation-building is the process through which these majorities are constructed." In Mylonas's framework, "state elites employ three nation-building policies: accommodation, assimilation, and exclusion."

state comprising multiple nations

honorific title

application of marketing techniques for the advancement of a country

term used to describe post-Apartheid South Africa

1882 lecture by French historian Ernest Renan

conceptual right of nations

shared sense of national identity