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The type "country" in Freebase can and should be used with a variety of topics. The most...

The type "country" in Freebase can and should be used with a variety of topics. The most common will be probably be current and former independent nations, potentially including composite entities such as empires. It can also be used for autonomous entities within such a composite, such as the four current constituent countries (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales) of the United Kingdom. And because the "country" type includes a number of properties that act as keys (such as ISO country codes), which are often necessary to use for reconciling or importing data, any location that has been assigned such a code should be typed as a country. This will mean that some locations whose status is controversial (such as Taiwan) will be typed as a country; it also means that some territories with little population or autonomy will be typed as a country.