What is a satellite country?

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What is a satellite country?

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A country which is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country. The term was coined by analogy to stellar objects orbiting a larger object, such as planets revolving around the sun, and is used mainly to refer to Central and Eastern European countries of the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, or Mongolia between 1924 and 1990.

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