Meanings of multinational state in English

It is a multinational state, like the former Yugoslavia or the Austro-Hungarian empire.

So are multinational states, world citizenship or cosmopolitan democracy.

Some form of fiscal autonomy is the only coherent solution to stabilising relations within multinational states such as Britain.

True, other European multinational states have sundered recently without bloodshed and with relatively little drama -for example, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.