state vs country

state and country both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
state	Yes	No	Yes	No
country	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, state and country are synonyms defined as:

state and country: a politically organized body of people under a single government

Other synonyms of state include body politic, commonwealth, land, nation, res publica.

As nouns, state and country are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of state include land.

state (noun)	country (noun)
the way something is with respect to its main attributes	a politically organized body of people under a single government
a politically organized body of people under a single government	the people who live in a nation or country
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state	the territory occupied by a nation
the territory occupied by a nation	an area outside of cities and towns
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation	a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
a state of depression or agitation
(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

state (verb)	country (verb)
express in words
put before
indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.