Download coordinates as: In political geography, an enclave is a piece of land belonging to one country (or region etc.)
Each enclave listed in this section has an administrative level equivalent to that of the one other entity that entirely surrounds it.
It was created on 29 June 2017 when the Permanent Court of Arbitration decided that a disputed 2.4 ha parcel is part of Slovenia and that the border follows Slovenian cadastral limits, thus completing the encirclement of the second Croatian enclave.
Three such sovereign countries exist: The same logic applies to many of the sub-national enclaves listed immediately following.
Semi-enclaves and semi-exclaves are areas that, except for possessing an unsurrounded sea border, would otherwise be enclaves or exclaves.
Vinokurov (2007) declares, "Technically, Portugal, Denmark, and Canada also border only one foreign state, but they are not enclosed in the geographical, political, or economic sense.
[3]: 14, 20–22 Vinokurov affirms that "no similar quantitative criterion is needed to define the scope of non-sovereign semi-enclaves/exclaves.