sovereign state which officially declares itself to be neutral towards the belligerents in a war
A neutral country is a nation that officially declares it will not take sides in a war between other countries. This matters because neutral status can help a country avoid military conflict, protect its citizens and economy, and potentially allow it to serve as a mediator between warring parties.
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World map showing some countries' degrees of neutrality prior to 2023: neutral countries
disputed neutral countries
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).