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Non-federations
Some countries exhibit characteristics of a federation, but are not. For example, Spain has a relationship resembling that of a federation with its autonomous communities; however, they are created by and exist at the suffrance of the central government, rather than being distinct entities that have chosen to join together.
In this case, you've have to add Belgium to this list too... -195.144.90.50, Dec 2003
UAE
Under "Long form titles", the UAE is listed under "None" when it is pretty clear that it is a long form title. It is similar to Mexico, listed under "Others" - United Mexican States as compared with United Arab Emirates - Mexico, like Arabia, is the geographical location, while States, like Emirates, is the political subentity. I've edited the page
In addition, according to the first clause of Article 1 of the Malaysian constitution, it states (roughly translated), "The Federation shall be known, in Malay and in English, by the name Malaysia." It doesn't state "Federation of Malaysia" or "Persekutuan Malaysia". But since the article Malaysia uses "Persekutuan Malaysia", I'll shall keep it that way. --Rajan R 06:58, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Belgium
Belgium is listed as a unitary state but it refers to itself as a federation. This should be corrected
Patrick Fafard Canada
As far as I can gather it seems to be a federation so I've moved it to that list. But if anyone knows better please shout. Iota 00:04, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
-Belgium used to be a unitary state, but they made a change-over to federacy in the last decades :)
Merger proposal
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I propose merging Federated state into Federation. A federated state is just a unit forming part of a federation. The content can easily be explained in the context of Federation, and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems. --Alvdal (talk) 20:34, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support These pages are largely duplicative and do not need to be covered separately. Reywas92Talk 01:58, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose One is a type of sovereign state, another is a type of administrative division. They are not the same thing.
- P.S. Proposal was initiated by a banned WP:SOCK, request for WP:SNOW close. 2001:8003:9008:1301:593E:42DA:A54E:3924 (talk) 06:34, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose proposal by an sock and it has no value per Wikipedia policy. 103.141.159.228 (talk) 19:34, 26 May 2022 (UTC)