Characteristics of a nation

There are some basic and district characteristics of a nation. They include:

1. History
   The people of a nation usually have a common source of origin. They strive to develop the group consciousness and pride that precipitation to a sense of nationhood. History serves as a unifying factor for identification from one generation to another. Usually, the common history and tradition is as a result of many years of sharing common feelings of victory, defeat, grief. Pride and fighting common wears with common objectives and sharing political antecedent thus creating a national consciousness (OJi 1997:55)
   2.Language
   People that constitute a nation usually speak or share common language in order to understand one another it encourages a sense of Belonging. It also permits the development of a nation literature . Common lauguage makes the people feel a certain kinship with one another with the ability to exclude other people who cannot communicate in that lauguage.
   3.Culture
   In a nation, the citizens are expected to exhibit common social and cultural traits and possess some similar features or attributes in all spheres of social Interaction and existence. Such cultural traits are displayed in their customs and habits for example, their marriage custom, religion rather institution of a state is a gamut of other factors such as religion kinship and political consciousness (Burgess, 1940: Gilchrist,1960).