Exclave

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An exclave is a territory that belongs to a political entity but is not connected to it by land (islands are not counted) and is surrounded by other political entities. A good example is the region around the Russian city Kaliningrad. It belongs to the Russia, but is separated from the rest of that country by territory belonging to Lithuania and Poland. Although both meanings are close, an exclave may not necessarily be an enclave. Kaliningrad is surrounded not by one state only, but by two: Lithuania and Poland and it also borders the Baltic Sea. On the other hand, the Spain exclave of Ll�via is an enclave in France. ==Other examples== * Baarle-Hertog, a Belgium exclave within the Netherlands province of North Brabant. * The cities of Ceuta and Melilla are Spanish exclaves on the north Africa Morocco coast. * Cabinda, an Angola exclave and province between Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) and the Republic of Congo. * The Dubrovnik region of Croatia. * East Prussia, a Germany exclave during the Weimar Republic: it was separated from Germany after World War I, when Poland regained access to the sea. East Prussia later became part of Poland and Russia (see Kaliningrad above). * Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan. * Oecussi-Ambeno is an East Timorese exclave surrounded by Indonesian territory. * Alaska, an exclave of the United States of America. (Hawaii is not counted because it is made up of islands.) * Point Roberts, Washington is another American exclave attached to a Canada peninsula of British Columbia. * In Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Massachusetts is not fully contiguous; the towns of Brookline and Cohasset, Massachusetts are part of Norfolk County but are surrounded on all sides by other counties. * The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is attached by land to Wisconsin. It can be reached from the Lower Peninsula of Michigan by the 5 mile (8 km) long Mackinac Bridge. * The Northwest Angle of Minnesota is attached by land to the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario; road access to the rest of the United States is only available through Manitoba. * The Eastern Shore of Virginia, comprising Accomack County, Virginia and Northampton County, Virginia, is located at the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula. It can be reached by the Virginia mainland via the 23 mile (37 km) long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. * The westernmost fragment of Kentucky, a piece of land known as the Madrid Bend, is surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River, with Missouri on the opposite shore. Road access to the rest of Kentucky is only available by initially going south into Tennessee. *The Oman territory of Madha is located in the United Arab Emirates, at the Strait of Hormuz. There is an exclave of UAE wholly within Madha called Nahwa, which belongs to Emirate of Sharjah. This is an example of an exclave inside an exclave as well as an enclave within an enclave. *More examples of exclaves in subnational units include the traditional counties of Flintshire in Wales and Cromartyshire in Scotland. * Temburong is a district in Brunei unconnected to the larger western part of the country, thus it is an exclave of Brunei. The district, like the whole of the country, is a coastal enclave in Malaysia. * Erenkoy is a tiny exclave of the beakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. * more examples at the entry for enclave ==External links== * [http://vwww.abo.fi/users/rpalmber/enclaves.htm Enclaves of the world] * [http://geosite.jankrogh.com/exclaves.htm Jan S. Krogh's Geosite] * [http://exclave.info/territory_list.html exclave.info] Exclaves

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==Dubrovnik?== Is this really an enclave? Its own article never mentions that, and its map makes it look like an island. --- Does Alaska count as an exclave of the United States? User:RickK | User talk:RickK 23:40, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC) :Yes, according to the list on Country. User:Fabiform | User talk:Fabiform 23:59, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC) Gibralter is different from other enclaves and I don't think it should count as one. It belongs to the UK, but it isn't PART of the UK, it's a dependency. Compare with Alaska, which has the same status as any other US state, or Mellila, Ceuta which are considered to be integral parts of the Spanish state. User:Kappa 02:51, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC) P.S. How about French Guiana, which is "an integral part of France"? ---- Is this serious? On Borneo, is East Malaysia an ''exclave'' of Malaysia because of Kalimantan (and Brunei), or is Kalimantan an ''exclave'' of Indonesia because of East Malaysia? Perhaps they surround each other? Is Brunei an ''enclave'' or two, or one or both parts an ''exclave''? How can you judge when the sea is involved? --User:Henrygb 22:21, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC) ---- Just a thought, but shouldn't the examples which are within the US be in the list of subnational exclaves, rather than in the main list? User:Vashti 18:05, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Merge with Enclave?== Is there really enough of a distinction between enclave and exclave to merit two separate articles? The enclave article discusses practical enclaves, coastal countries, coastal fragments, and subnational enclaves. Since there can also exist practical exclaves and subnational exclaves, and since coastal fragments are probably exclaves but not enclaves, it's all looking like an arbitrary division. I think a single article, defining both terms in the intro, and then enumerating and distinguishing subtypes, would be more natural than trying to fence the two terms off. All the external linked sites discuss both terms together. cf Acronym and initialism. User:Joestynes 09:41, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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