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Both words refer to both concepts.

country

  1. A nation or state.
  2. The territory of a nation or state; land.
  3. The people of a nation or state; populace.

nation

  1. A relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country.
  2. The territory occupied by such a group of people.
  3. The government of a sovereign state.
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This definition is not fully correct. A nation does not need to have a government. For example the Kurds

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Yes but my point is that he’s not using the wrong word.

Edit: also Kurdistan exists

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Kurdistan doesn’t really have a central government like that, nor fixed or well defined borders. Keep in mind that the concept of a “Nation State” is really only a couple hundred years old.

If that counterexample doesn’t satisfy you, then Somalia should. It is a country without a functioning government, which has two nations inside of them of the northern and southern Somalians which are completely different, and neither of which have any sort of unifying government.

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