Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index C is A's enclave and is B's exclave. In human geography, an enclave is a piece of land which is totally enclosed within a foreign territory. If another country has sovereignty over it, it may also be called an exclave: it is an enclave of the foreign territory which surrounds it it is an exclave of the country which has sovereignty over it Exclave may also exist in subnational level when a subdivision exists outside of its parent division. (See #Subnational examples) The word 'enclave' crept into the jargon of diplomacy rather late in English, in 1868, coming from French, the lingua franca of diplomacy, with a sense inherited from late Latin inclavatus meaning 'shut in, locked up" (with a key, late Latin clavis). The 'exclave' is a logical extension created three decades later. Table of contents 1 Countries 2 Coastal territories 3 Coastal countries 4 List of enclaves 4.1 Subnational examples 5 External link Countries Some enclaves are countries in their own rights, and therefore not exclaves. Examples of these include: the republic of San Marino Vatican City the Kingdom of Lesotho Coastal territories A coastal territory cannot correctly be called enclaves, since the sea is not a foreign territory, hence disqualifying it of the "enclosed on all sides by foreign territory" criteria. Spanish towns Ceuta and Melilla UK territory Gibraltar Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave of East Timor in Indonesian West Timor Cabinda, an exclave of Angola Russian territory Kaliningrad (which, before World War II, was the German city of Königsberg, capital of East Prussia) Coastal countries Countries that border just one country and the sea: Bahrain Brunei Canada Dominican Republic Haiti Ireland Monaco Papua New Guinea Portugal Qatar Singapore South Korea The Gambia United Kingdom List of enclaves West Berlin (prior to the unification of Germany) Baarle-Hertog, a Belgian exclave in the Netherlands. Büsingen, German exclave in the canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland Campione, Italian exclave in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland Llivia, Spanish exclave in France. Ormidhia and Xylotimbou in Cyprus, surrounded by the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia Nahwa, an Omani enclave within Madha, which in turn is an exclave of the United Arab Emirates in Oman The most embodied enclave in the world is an Indian exclave called Dahala Khagrabari, which is embodied in a Bangladeshi enclave called Upanchowki Bhajni, which in turn is an enclave to the Indian exclave Balapara Khagrabari which in turn is an enclave to Bangladesh. Subnational examples Kitayama Village (北山村) and Wakayama Town Enclave (熊野川町飛地) of Wakayama prefecture are located in the border between Mie and Nara prefectures. the traditional borders of Flintshire includes a large exclave called Maelor Saesneg Cromartyshire traditionally has a large number of enclaves in Ross-shire See also: List of international enclaves, and "Countries consisting of two non-contiguous parts" in the Country article. External link Enclaves of the world This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.