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Actually, it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England

Wrong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdo...

“Wrong” is wrong. The linked article cites England as a country in the UK.

"America" isn't, strictly speaking, "The United States of America" - but when people use the term, we all know of which is spoken. Likewise "England".

Can't resist...

Guildenstern: I don't believe in it anyway.

Rosencrantz: What?

Guildenstern: England.

Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

Not sure why you were downvoted. England certainly isn't a country in the sense that's important in the article, i.e. a self-governing entity with control over its own economic system.

Why is the fact that it's not self-governing relevant to the article? If the violence statistics cited apply to the (country/nation/administrative region/chunk of land) that is England, then surely that's all that matters.