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The UK comprises four countries, three of which have assemblies with varying degrees of power (and England is not one of those).  The Sovereign state asks people which of those countries they come  from on its census.  What a wikipedia editor things the people of Northern Ireland wanted or not is not relevant, the fact that various text books discuss the controversy around the name is relevant for the article, but does not impact on the use of country to describe Northern Ireland.   TALK  "