A state that contains two or more cultural groups or different nations of people with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

Examples:

Great Britain

Canada

Russia

Belgium

Bosnia

• nation

• stateless nation

• multinational state

• autonomous region

A large group of people who are united by common cultural characteristics, such as language and ethnicity, or shared history.

• nation

• nation-state

• stateless nation

• multinational state

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied, predominantly by a particular nation of people.

Examples:

Japan

France

Germany

Israel

• stateless nation

• multinational state

• multistate nation

• nation-state

People with a shared culture and spread over several states, may need or want a nation at some point.

Examples:

 The Jewish people

Koreans

Germans (as a people)

• multistate nation

• nation-state

• autonomous region

• self determination

An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state.

Examples:

The Kurds

Palestinians

Catalans and Basque?

• multinational state

• semi-autonomous region

• stateless nation

• nation-state

Area where a group has some type of political autonomy. These regions have a degree of power and self-determination, but not fully like the autonomous regions.

Examples:

Native American Reservations

Hong Kong

Basque & Catalonia

Kurdistan

• autonomous region

• semi-autonomous region

• sovereignty

• self determination

An area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority.

Examples:

Greenland  (Kalaallit Nunaat, owned by Denmark)

Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)

Gaza Strip and West Bank (Israel / Palestine)

• nation-state

• autonomous region

• semi-autonomous region

• stateless nation

An independent state with the ability to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

Examples:  

All 193 members of the United Nations

The U.S.

Mexico

Philippines

• sovereignty

• stateless nation

• self determination

• colonialism

Political independence or the ability of a government to determine their own course, of their own free will. Sovereignty. A government free from external control. State.

Examples:

The desire for a larger Serb state that led to WWI.

Decolonization of Africa

Catalonia

Kurdistan

South Sudan

Barbs 

• colonialism

• self determination

• nation state

• imperialism

An attempt  by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principle in another country.

Similar to imperialism.

Examples:

Scramble for Africa

British Empire

French Indochina

• sovereignty

• colonialism

• devolution

• supranationalism