The phrase "autonomous countries" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to countries that have a degree of self-governance or independence from external control.
Example: "The region is home to several autonomous countries that manage their own affairs while still being part of a larger nation."
Alternatives: "self-governing nations" or "independent states".
Curaçao and Sint Maarten became autonomous countries within the kingdom, a status similar to that of Aruba.
On Oct. 10, 2010, St. Maarten and Curaçao became autonomous countries within the Netherlands, and Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius became special municipalities of the Netherlands.
It was not easy to find a guide willing to make the journey, and it was even harder to find someone who had ties to the indigenous communities in Brazil, which function almost as autonomous countries, with their own laws and governing councils.
Twenty-seven of the NF Board's members hail from autonomous countries, but the majority represent stateless nations.
The qualities that unite and separate one region from another are profound because Italy is a country united, barely 150 years ago, from autonomous countries with unique customs and food traditions.
Among the autonomous countries that were formed as a result of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, was the (until then) subnational entity of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, by the official name of "Socialist Republic of Macedonia", the others being Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark.
When Pedro proclaimed its independence on Sept. 7, 1822, and subsequently became its first emperor, Brazil's progression from Portuguese colony to autonomous country was complete.
But even in an autonomous country which is politically at rest, organised crime can be equally well spawned by the government enacting a few irrational and unjust laws and regulations.
Joseph Kabasele took a more idealistic view of politicians in his address to the Belgian conference on Congolese independence, only to witness his newly autonomous country collapse into civil war.
Faroe Islands - a self-governing country within Denmark Aruba - an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
