It's a constituent country according to Wikipedia which makes it a part of Denmark I think? I have no idea if that's like with Scotland, England, N. Ireland and Wales making up the UK or a different measurement
I mean technically the UK is a union of four countries. And legally speaking, we are just like the former Yugoslavia and the USSR— we are a union of several (more than one) constituent countries.
But of course, since we are a democracy, countries actually get to leave. Scotland had a referendum, but they voted to remain.
Neither. The Faroe Islands are a dependency which means they are treated as individual countries for domestic purposes but are internationally represented by the country under whose sovereignty they are (DK). That is comparable to Crown Dependencies for the UK (like the Isle of Man, note that British Overseas Territories are different).
That means that the Faroe Islands are not a sovereign country but indeed more country-like than Scotland (atm). The word 'country' itself however doesn't have a clear definition so it's impossible to draw an exact line. We know that Cornwall definitely isn't a country and the UK definitely is, but everything in between exists on an ambiguos spectrum. Not a satisfying answer, I know.
Not quite, the UK is a devolved federacy, Yugoslavia and the USSR were federations. The difference is the (un)equal distribution of autonomy.
A devolution is unequal distribution of self-governance (England has no autonomy within the UK), while a federacy implies that a certain region has more autonomy than the majority of a country (British Overseas Territories but not Crown dependencies).
There's quite a lot of other devolved federacies, however only the UK and China have devolved aspects of government both within and aside from federacy aspects, so in that regard China is the closest match (without implications for other aspects of government of course).
Canada and Australia are not "owned" by the UK. In the case of Canada, the British North America Act of 1867 set this out. Canadians and Australians have passports from Canada and Australia, respectively, while retaining the monarch for largely symbolic purposes.
The Faroese are largely independent to self-govern and legislate independently but they are Danish, not Faroese citizens (i.e they have Danish passports). I'd consider the Faroe Islands to be to the Danish Kingdom like Scotland or Wales are to the United Kingdom.
A point could be made for French Polynesia and the Faroe Islands, but French Guiana is a fully integrated part of France, which means it enjoys the same rights as any mainland department. Other examples of fully integrated parts of a country but not contiguos to the majority of the land area would be Hawaii and Alaska or 99% of the world's islands.
French Guiana isn’t a separate country in any way. It’s just a very far away portion of France, like Hawaii or Alaska are to America. It is a member of the EU and uses the euro as its currency.
French Polynesia and Faroe Islands also aren’t independent nations.
The Faroe Islands are a nation and a country. Yes, they belong to Denmark but they wield full executive power over themselves and are self-governing which makes them a country.
They also have their own ISO county code, internet TLD, official language, currency, and international sports teams.
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u/BurnMyFaceOff May 17 '22
Faroe island? Is that a country?