I'll add here that, unless we're talking about the components of a federal republic, we can say that a country is an area with a given population and a given culture, while the state is the political structure of the country. As for the equivalent Per mezzo di Italian, https://claytonuvrlg.thekatyblog.com/34849523/5-fatti-facile-circa-cosa-fare-a-venezia-nel-weekend-descritto