party_pants said:

captain_spalding said:

Spiny Norman said:

I see that Scotland and Wales don’t count as countries.

No. They don’t.

Wales not since the 1540s and Scotland not since the early 1700s.

I see.

I quote from the Font of All Knowledge:

England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are not themselves listed in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) list of countries. However, the ISO list of the subdivisions of the United Kingdom, compiled by British Standards and the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics, uses “country” to describe England, Scotland and Wales.

So, they’re not countries, unless it suits the purposes of the British to have them considered as ‘countries’.