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An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity. An enclave can be an independent territory or part of a larger one. [1] Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. [2]: 60 Enclave is sometimes used improperly to denote a territory that is only partly surrounded by another state. [1]
North Kansas City, Missouri, surrounded by Kansas City; though also shares a border with Avondale; Oaks, Missouri, surrounded by Kansas City; though also shares a border with Gladstone and Oakwood; Oakview, Missouri, surrounded by Kansas City; though also shares a border with Gladstone and Oakwood Park
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.
The highest point in the country, the summit of Monte Titano, is 749 m (2,457 ft) above sea level; the lowest, the Ausa River (ending in the Marecchia), [39] is 55 m (180 ft). San Marino has no still or contained bodies of water of any significant size. It is one of only three countries in the world to be completely surrounded by one other country.
Over 80% of the country lies above 1,800 metres (5,906 ft). Lesotho is the southernmost landlocked country in the world. It is the largest of the world's three independent states completely surrounded by the territory of another country, with Vatican City and San Marino being the other two.
It derives from the Italian levante, meaning "rising", implying the rising of the Sun in the east, [3] [2] and is broadly equivalent to the term al-Mashriq (Arabic: ٱلْمَشْرِق, [ʔal.maʃ.riq]), [8] meaning "the eastern place, where the Sun rises". [9] In 1581, England set up the Levant Company to trade with the Ottoman Empire. [3]
a peninsula or a semi-enclave, where one country has a land border with a neighbouring one but is otherwise surrounded by sea, while the neighbour borders other countries—examples are Portugal (neighbouring Spain), The Gambia (surrounded by Senegal) and Brunei (surrounded by Malaysia).
(This is strictly not a tautology, as the country East Timor indeed takes up the eastern half of the island Timor; the island was named thus by peoples living west of it. The western half is part of Indonesia and informally named West Timor. In the national language, Tetum, the name is Timor Lorosa'e, which means rising sun, or east.