List of enclaves and exclaves

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.

Lesotho (shown in red) is completely surrounded by South Africa
Administrative divisions of Liechtenstein
St. Martin Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana , shown here, is divided into two non-contiguous areas separated by Iberia Parish .
O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania is divided into five non-contiguous areas.
South Hackensack, New Jersey is divided into three non-contiguous areas.
Brownstown Charter Township, Michigan is divided into three non-contiguous areas.
Italy in 1789 before the French Revolutionary Wars
The territory of Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin in 1618, consisting of four exclaves.
Map of the heavily partitioned black homelands in South Africa at the end of apartheid in 1994