Each of these regions behaved like a separate country without relations to the others.

They sometimes tend to think of Texas as a separate country.

The Mohawks say they will never live in a separate country.

He won and became president of this new, separate country.

They would remain separate sovereign countries but act as a single bloc in foreign policy and security issues.

In the last century both tried to establish themselves as separate countries.

If California was a separate country it would have the sixth largest economy in the world.

Maybe, in time, we could even become a separate country.

The island is considered as a separate country for amateur radio awards.

The failure of the vote, however, does not mean that Quebec is about to march off as a separate country.