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

Passenger trains running between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad through Lithuania will not be affected by the decision, the government said.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

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

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2023

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