exclave

Example Sentences

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Iran owns only one shore—with Oman’s Musandam exclave sitting on the other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Azerbaijan announced on Friday it was withdrawing diplomatic staff from Iran, a day after drones launched from Iranian territory targeted an airport and exploded near a school in the country's Nakhichevan exclave, bordering Iran.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

Lithuania - a member of the Nato military alliance - also shares a border with Kaliningrad, a heavily militarised Russian exclave on the Black Sea.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2025

They will attend a ceremony for a gas pipeline that will bring gas to Nakhchivan and inaugurate a newly modernised military installation in the exclave, Turkey said.

From Reuters • Sep. 25, 2023

Armenian leaders remain   preoccupied by the long conflict with Azerbaijan over   Nagorno-Karabakh, a primarily Armenian-populated exclave, assigned   to Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1920s by Moscow.

From The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency