Country
Crossword Clue & Answers

8 December 2021
Last seen in: The Sun Cryptic

We found 77 answers for the crossword clue 'Country', the most recent of which was seen in the The Sun Cryptic.

We've seen this clue in both CRYPTIC and NON-CRYPTIC crossword publications.

We have given Country a popularity rating of 'Very Common' because it has featured in a numerous crossword publications and has multiple answers.

As well as being a clue we've also seen Country as an answer itself some 66 times.

Country is a single word clue made up of 7 letters.

We most recently saw this clue in 'The Sun Cryptic' on Wednesday, 08 December 2021 with the answer being NATION, we also found NATION to be the most popular answer for this clue.

We've seen this clue in the following publications:

• The Sun Cryptic - 8 Dec 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 6 Dec 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 1 Dec 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 3 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 4 Oct 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 10 Sep 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 17 Aug 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 23 Jul 2021
• The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - 8 Jul 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 5 Jul 2021

Definitions and usage

Before we get to our crossword answers for 'Country', take a look at the definitions and example uses below, sometimes these help you think of different words or phrases that are common to 'Country' and give you a hint.

• A politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"
• A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country"
• The territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
• An area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"
• The people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"

Crossword Answers

3 Letters

HAM
(Old Testament) son of Noah

INN
A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

USA
The army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare

4 Letters

AREA
A part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

CHAD
A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa

CUBA
The largest island in the West Indies

IRAN
A theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil

IRAQ
A republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq

LAND
Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"

MALI
A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960; Mali was a center of West African civilization for more than 4,000 years

MILE
A former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)

OMAN
A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; the economy is dominated by oil

PERU
A republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries

ROAD
A way or means to achieve something; "the road to fame"

5 Letters

CHINA
A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

INDIA
A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947

ITALY
A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD

JAPAN
Lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient

JATAN

KENYA
A republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya

RURAL
Of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city; "rural electrification"; "rural free delivery"

SPAIN
A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power

STATE
The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789"

SYRIA
An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization

WALES
One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria

YEMEN
A republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990

6 Letters

BRAZIL
Three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell

CANADA
A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world"

FRANCE
A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe

GAMBIA
A narrow republic surrounded by Senegal in West Africa

GREECE
A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil

ISRAEL
Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine

MEXICO
A republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810

NATION
A politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

NORWAY
A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905

POLAND
A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II

RUSSIA
A former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917

RUSTIC
An unsophisticated country person

SWEDEN
A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula

TURKEY
Large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

TUVALU
A group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii

7 Letters

ALBANIA
A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula

ALGERIA
A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s

AMERICA
North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

AUSTRIA
A mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century

BELARUS
A landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet

BELGIUM
A monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Union and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

BOLIVIA
A form of canasta in which sequences can be melded

BRITAIN
A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom

BUCOLIC
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"

CROATIA
A republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991

ENGLAND
A division of the United Kingdom

ESTONIA
A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea

FINLAND
Republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917

HOLLAND
A constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level

HUNGARY
A republic in central Europe

ICELAND
A volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle

IRELAND
A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921

LIBERIA
A republic in West Africa; established in 1822 by Americans as a way to free negro slaves

MOROCCO
A kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956

NAMIBIA
A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa

ROMANIA
A republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea

TUNISIA
A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean coast; achieved independence from France in 1956; "southern Tunisia is mostly desert"

VIETNAM
A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States

8 Letters

BULGARIA
A republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe

PASTORAL
A letter from a pastor to the congregation

PORTUGAL
A republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil)

REPUBLIC
A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"

SLOVENIA
A mountainous republic in central Europe; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; achieved independence in 1991

9 Letters

AUSTRALIA
A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony

RURALAREA
An area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"

10 Letters

NEWZEALAND
North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific

RESPUBLICA
A politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

11 Letters

BODYPOLITIC
A politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

12 Letters

COMMONWEALTH
A politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

UNITEDSTATES
The executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States

22 Letters

CENTRALAFRICANREPUBLIC
A landlocked country in central Africa; formerly under French control; became independent in 1960