exclave

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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

The cable runs from St Petersburg to Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.

From Reuters • Nov. 7, 2023

The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is nearby and there is a new barbed-wire fence along its entire length.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 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