Definition of "nation-state" []

• A political unit consisting of an autonomous state inhabited predominantly by a people sharing a common culture, history, and language. (noun)

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• "Despite growing decentralization since the 1990s the idea of nation-state and capitalism as understood in the West has not evolved in India."
• "To gauge the depth of white working-class cultural identification with the nation-state, one need not look any further than popular reactions to American military ventures since Pearl Harbor."
• "Thailand is the 19th largest nation-state in the world by population with an estimated 66 million citizens."