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In political geography, an enclave is a piece of land belonging to one country (or region etc.) that is totally surrounded by another country (or region). An exclave is a piece of land that is politically attached to a larger piece but not physically contiguous with it (connected to it) because they are completely separated by a surrounding foreign territory or territories.
Articles relating to enclaves and exclaves. An enclave is a territory (or a part of one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state. An exclave is a portion of a state or territory geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory (of one or more states).
Semi-enclaves and semi-exclaves are areas that, except for possessing an unsurrounded sea border, would otherwise be enclaves or exclaves. [ 4 ] : 116 [ 5 ] : 12–14 Semi-enclaves can exist as independent states that border only one other state, such as Monaco , the Gambia and Brunei .
This category is for territories that are exclaves of a U.S. state or territory. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. A.
In a 2008 address to the National Medical Association in 2008, Ronald M. Davis, MD, past president of the American Medical Association (AMA), apologized for the organization's history of excluding African-Americans from the AMA, pledging to "right the wrongs perpetrated against African American physicians, their families and patients." [44]
The semi-exclaves were in Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Devon, County Durham and Lancashire. Riparian semi-exclaves are not counted. After 1844, 106 exclaves survived which amounted to 28 surviving legal issues (multi-parish exclaves counted singly). The 1844 Act resulted in a list of individual legal enactments targeting boundary anomalies.
Unlike enclaves and exclaves, they are not entirely surrounded by outside territory. Hence, they are enclaves or exclaves for practical purposes, without meeting the strict definition. In Lehigh County, the westernmost section of the city of Allentown is a pene-en(ex)clave connected at a quadripoint with South Whitehall Township, which ...
This is a list of ethnic enclaves in various countries of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to the native population. An ethnic enclave in this context denotes an area primarily populated by a population with similar ethnic or racial background. This list also includes concentrations rather than enclaves, and historic examples which may ...