# kingdom (political)

a region with a government

- Computed level: L11 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: political  ·  Arena: kingdom.political

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [region](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-region.spatial), [government](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-government.administrative)

**Through:** the region is under the control of the government

**Novel properties:**
- sovereign authority
- defined boundaries
- symbolic leadership

## Examples
- The Kingdom of Great Britain was formed in 1707 by the Acts of Union between England and Scotland. *(institutions)*
- The Aksumite Kingdom in East Africa administered trade routes and minted its own currency by the 1st century CE. *(history)*
- The Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka maintained sovereignty until British annexation in 1815. *(geopolitics)*

## Used by
- [king](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-king.monarch) (L17)

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-kingdom.political.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*