Exclave
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 Russian Federation, but is separated from the rest of that country by territory belonging to Lithuania and Belarus.
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 Spanish exclave of Llívia is an enclave in France.
Other examples
- Baarle-Hertog, a Belgian exclave within the Dutch province of North Brabant.
- Cabinda, an Angolan exclave and province between Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) and the Republic of Congo.
- The southern part of the coast of Croatia.
- East Prussia, a German exclave during the Weimar Republic: it was separated from Germany after World War One, when Poland regained access to the sea. East Prussia later became part of Poland and Russia (see Kaliningrad above).
- Nakhchivan, an exclave of Azerbaijan.
- Alaska, an exclave of the United States of America. (Hawaii doesn't count because it is made up of islands.)
Examples of exclaves in subnational units include the traditional counties of Flintshire, Wales and Cromartyshire, Scotland, in the United Kingdom.
External links
- Enclaves of the world (http://vwww.abo.fi/users/rpalmber/enclaves.htm)
- Jan S. Krogh's Geosite (http://geosite.jankrogh.com/exclaves.htm)
- exclave.info (http://exclave.info/territory_list.html)
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