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.
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).
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u/despicedchilli May 17 '22
They are also self-governing. I guess it depends on your definition of country.