بلدان المملكة المتحدة: الفرق بين النسختين

|مسار أرشيف= https://web.archive.org/web/20160101130117/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/beginner-s-guide/administrative/the-countries-of-the-uk/index.html|تاريخ أرشيف=2016-01-01}}</ref> <ref>{{استشهاد ويب

}} "United Kingdom: Term used most frequently for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the modern sovereign state comprising England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland."</ref> (والتي [[دولة في المملكة المتحدة|توصف بشكل مختلف بأنها]] دولة أو المقاطعة أو المنطقة). <ref name="alphabeticalNI3">{{استشهاد|last=S. Dunn|last2=H. Dawson|year=2000|title=An Alphabetical Listing of Word, Name and Place in Northern Ireland and the Living Language of Conflict|publisher=Edwin Mellen Press|place=Lampeter|quote=One specific problem – in both general and particular senses – is to know what to call Northern Ireland itself: in the general sense, it is not a country, or a province, or a state – although some refer to it contemptuously as a statelet: the least controversial word appears to be jurisdiction, but this might change.}}</ref> <ref name="interpretingNI3">{{استشهاد|last=J. Whyte|last2=G. FitzGerald|year=1991|title=Interpreting Northern Ireland|publisher=Oxford University Press|place=Oxford|quote=One problem must be adverted to in writing about Northern Ireland. This is the question of what name to give to the various geographical entities. These names can be controversial, with the choice often revealing one's political preferences. ... some refer to Northern Ireland as a 'province'. That usage can arouse irritation particularly among nationalists, who claim the title 'province' should be properly reserved to the four historic provinces of Ireland-Ulster, Leinster, Munster, and Connacht. If I want to a label to apply to Northern Ireland I shall call it a 'region'. Unionists should find that title as acceptable as 'province': Northern Ireland appears as a region in the regional statistics of the United Kingdom published by the British government.}}</ref> <ref name="placeApart3">{{استشهاد|last=D. Murphy|year=1979|title=A Place Apart|publisher=Penguin Books|place=London|quote=Next – what noun is appropriate to Northern Ireland? 'Province' won't do since one-third of the province is on the wrong side of the border. 'State' implies more self-determination than Northern Ireland has ever had and 'country' or 'nation' are blatantly absurd. 'Colony' has overtones that would be resented by both communities and 'statelet' sounds too patronizing, though outsiders might consider it more precise than anything else; so one is left with the unsatisfactory word 'region'.}}</ref>