An independent nation is a country that has sovereignty. Also, this means that a nation is exercising freedom among its people with a government that is not dependent on other countries.
Of course, a nation should have both because a nation will not have freedom if it doesn't have the ability to govern. The ability to govern is to make freedom for the nation and to make a nation independent.
Texas was independent and referred to as The Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1845.
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It was never an independent nation
Liechtenstein is a state, and independent country and a nation. All these terms are interchangeable. P.S. A "state" can mean either an independent country, or the sub-divisions of a federal country.
It is an independent city that is also a nation.
It is obviosly an independent nation!( :
Because we were, and remain, an independent nation.
Because we were, and remain, an independent nation.
Saint Lucia is a sovereign and independent nation.
The American Revolution made the US an independent nation.
An independent nation is one in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory.
Honduras is an independent nation.
India became an independent nation.
A country, state or nation that rules itself, not by some other country. It is free, it is independent.