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What makes a country real/not real? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world to c/explainlikeimfive@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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[–] Agility0971@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

A country is a country to those countries that have said (recognized) them as a country. So all countries have their own list of what countries exists and what borders they have. The same way as borders are drawn differently in google maps depending on what country you access the website from.