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Your examples are completely wrong. The Netherlands is sometimes mistakenly refered to as Holland because this for a time this was the accepted way of referring to the country and its people. It has never been the accepted way to refer to Scottish as English or Welsh as English or Northern Irish as English.

The American comparison would be more suitable if you referred to the whole of the USA as Washington DC.



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