What Does Federated Mean?

The word federated is a political concept that means being united under the rule of a central government or authority. It is an association, or better still union, of states or independent territories which come together and form a nation in which they recognise the right of the federal or central government to hold the reigns of power.

In federated countries administrative powers are divided between the centre and the constituent states. The country of Malaysia was once known as "The Federated Malay States". Other countries that are modelled under the federated form of government are the United States, Canada and Mexico in North America, Brazil, Venezuela, and Argentina in South America, Australia in Oceania, India, Pakistan, Iraq, the UAE and Russia in Asia, Ethiopia and Sudan in Eastern Africa and Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Austria in Europe.

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