1.14 City-state and nation state

A city-state:

• smaller than a “nation” in the sense of “large sovereign country” and
• may or may not be dominated by all or part of a single “nation” in the sense of a common ethnicity.

A nation state (or nation-state):

• is a country where a distinct cultural or ethnic group (a “nation” or “people”) inhabits a territory and has formed a state (often a sovereign state) that it predominantly governs; It is a more precise concept than “country”, since a country need not have a predominant ethnic group.