Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country (or countryside)'s also a term used to refer to rural areas. Usually, but not always, a country coincides with a sovereign territory and's associated with a state, nation and government. In common usage, the term country's used in the sense of both nations and states, with definitions varying. In some cases it's used to refer both to… (More on Country)