Thesaurus:country

English

Geographic parts

People

Organizations

Sample country prefixes - see the appendix

This entry is designed to cover two co-occurring entities: an organization and a territory. The organization has e.g. state organs as its parts, whereas the territory has locations as its parts. This duality extends to administrative divisions. By contrast, WordNet has these two entities neatly separated. From a linguistic thesaurus perspective, having these two merged seems justifiable, and corresponds to how e.g. France is defined using a single sense and not two separate senses, one for the organization and another one for the territory. Wikidata seems overengineered.
Only sovereign countries are included, not constituent countries such as England.

“country” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
"country" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011. < political unit < organization < social group
"country" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011. (territory) < administrative district < district < region < location
Country in National Cancer Institute Thesaurus < Geographic Area < Conceptual Entity
Wikidata:Q6256: country < political territorial entity < administrative territorial entity < human-geographic territorial entity < territory < geographic region < geographical feature < geographic location < location
Wikidata:Q3624078: sovereign state < country, state
Wikidata:Q7275: state (a sovereign state, constituent state, or federated state) < organization, political territorial entity, administrative territorial entity
State/Nation-State, princeton.edu
Sovereignty, plato.stanford.edu
What is a country?, worlddata.info