Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Dân tộc (cộng đồng)" in Vietnamese language version.
1. an aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state: the Australian nation
It should be stated at the outset that the term nation has two distinctly different uses. In a legal sense it is synonymous with the state as a whole regardless of the number of different ethnic or national groups–nationalities–contained within it. In that sense, one speaks of nation and means state.