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state governed as a single unit with a supreme central government

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A unitary state is a country where one central government holds all the main power, rather than sharing it with regional governments. This matters because it affects how decisions get made and who has authority—everything from taxes to laws flows from that single center of power.

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De jure map of the world   Unitary states

Federal states

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “unitary state” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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