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.
