A multinational state or a multinational union is a sovereign entity that comprises two or more nations or states. This contrasts a nation state, where a single nation accounts for the bulk of the population.

What is multiethnic state?

Multiethnic State. Definition: A state that contains more than one ethnicity. Example: U.S.A.

What is an example of a multiethnic state?

Examples of historical multinational states that have since split into multiple sovereign states include the Ottoman Empire, British India, Czechoslovakia, the Empire of Japan, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Austria-Hungary, that was a joint monarchy of two multinational states.