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What makes a country real/not real? (lemmy.world)

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I see a lot of people saying that countries like Israel, Latvia, Belgium and Dubai are not real countries, but how are they not? They seem to meet the threshold. How are they any less real then any other country?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (7 children)

But on Wikipedia it says it's a country?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The emirate of Dubai a state (not a country)inside the UAE similar to how California is a state inside the USA.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I swear there is a page on Wikipedia about the country of Dubai.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could just post the link.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Giant mix up here. When I read "Emirate" I thought that was a Arabic word for state. My bad.

A lot of Arabic discourse I seen relates to the legitimacy of certain Arab countries. Kind of like the Balkans. There's a belief that Qatar, Kuwait and even Palestine aren't real countries.

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