exclaves
Separated sovereign fragments
Exclaves are portions of a country or territory physically separated from the main body and surrounded by foreign territory.
Alaska is a U.S. exclave, separated from the contiguous states by Canada.
The term contrasts with enclave, which describes the same territory from the perspective of what surrounds it: Kaliningrad is a Russian exclave but a European enclave.
The treaty created several exclaves along the border.
Land under jurisdiction
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- borderOuter edge or limit
- boundaryLine marking a limit
annexation · partition · treaty · cession · administration · governance · diplomatic · international
Spatial representation of terrain
- boundaryLine marking a limit
- borderOuter edge or limit
- discontinuityBreak in continuity
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
encircled · surrounded · isolated · detached · noncontiguous · fragmented · patchwork · salient
Russian Baltic exclave
territory
Land under jurisdiction
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- borderOuter edge or limit
boundary · annexation · partition · treaty · cession · administration · governance · diplomatic · international · statehood
map
Spatial representation of terrain
- boundaryLine marking a limit
- borderOuter edge or limit
- discontinuityBreak in continuity
territory · encircled · surrounded · isolated · detached · noncontiguous · fragmented · patchwork · salient · corridor
Kaliningrad
Russian Baltic exclave
- human geographycultural landscape, demographics, migration, demography, urbanization
- CyprusNicosia, halloumi, Aphrodite, Northern Cyprus, buffer zone
- Map odditiesBermuda Triangle, phantom islands, terra incognita, here be dragons, disputed borders
- bordersborder, boundary, border crossing, national borders, boundary line
- territoriesprovince, state, region, country, colony
- geopoliticsbalance of power, bipolarity, bloc, blocs, brinkmanship
exclavesmainland
Principal connected territory
heartland · mother country · metropolitan areas · hinterland · interior