Comment by IshKebab
3 days ago
Not usually. Wikipedia:
> in most modern countries all nationals are citizens of the state, and full citizens are always nationals of the state.
> In international law, a "stateless person" is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law"
Even the US distinguishes between citizens and nationals. Most famously, American Samoans are non-citizen nationals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_of_the_United_Stat...