A portion of a country or territory that is separated from the main body and completely surrounded by foreign territory.
Back-formation from 'enclave' (1880s), from French 'enclave,' from Latin 'in-' (in) + 'clavis' (key, from 'claudere,' to close). The 'ex-' version was created to describe the perspective from the separated territory's original country.
Alaska and Hawaii are US exclaves, but the wildest example is Kaliningrad, a Russian city trapped between Poland and Lithuania—these isolated territories face unique political and cultural challenges.
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