In Reply to: Equally pedantic.... posted by Baldie on Wednesday, 6. October 2010 at 12:24 Bali Time:
If i go to Rottnest Island, am i going to a country?
""Examples of entities that are not countries include: Hong Kong, Bermuda, Greenland, Puerto Rico, and most notably the constituent parts of the United Kingdom. (Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England are not countries.)"
http://geography.about.com/cs/politicalgeog/a/statenation.htm