regional independence
Breakaway territory movement
Regional independence is the condition or pursuit of political autonomy for a geographic area within a larger nation-state.
Independence movements seek full sovereignty—separation from the parent country to form a new nation: Catalonia's push for regional independence from Spain, Scotland's independence referendum.
The term may also describe lesser degrees of self-governance short of full statehood.
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- home ruleDelegated local autonomy
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- separatismAdvocacy for political breakaway
self-determination · devolution · breakaway · homeland · nation · territory · referendum · ballot · movement · grass roots · activists · protest · flags · national identity · borders · identity · culture · ethnic minority
regional independencecentralization
Unifying control in one place
central government · federalism · national unity · centralized authority · strong central government
regional independenceunification
Merging into one entity
national unity · annexation · incorporation · integration · absorption
regional independencecolonial rule
Foreign power's territorial dominion
foreign domination · subjugation · dependency · subordination · occupation
regional, independence, region, regions, regionally, regionalism, regionalist, independent, independently