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It is complicated. Yes and no. There are things called counties (which are not unlike your counties), except in some places the historical county borders are different to the current administrative ones.
There's cultural and geographic borders which are obviously feathery on the edges. There's things like Cornwall which is a ceremonial country and a Duchy and is also the historical homeland of the Cornish Celtic nation, but Cornish nationalism isn't very big.
Historically parts of Wales which are now unambiguously Welsh were considered part of England - legally speaking I think for a long long time there wasn't much of a distinction between England and Wales legally, though this was... this was very much *enforced*. A complicated and painful history.
Then you have places like the Crown Dependencies which certainly aren't English - indeed they aren't British - but are more in England's orbit than the other nations of the UK...
Yeah pretending that Great Britain = Nations and Regions (of England) is kind of the problem here. There are sub-units within England that are not Nations in the way that Scotland and Wales (and also mumblemumble) are but they are very varied.
To be quite frank there are few things that unite all of England other than the bad parts of our history. Most of the good bits we share with you (one reason I'm pro-union!)
Yeah I mean I think people don't really have the models in mind. The crap assembly stuff New Labour tried wasn't it but I think there has to be a better way.
