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exclave (EKS-klayv) - n., a portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part.
It can be detached from the rest of the country by being across water from it, or by being surrounded by one or more other countries -- when it's just one, then the exclave is an enclave within the other country. This latter was the original case needing a name when the word was coined in the 1880s, by extension of enclave. Examples of true exclaves (that is, totally surrounded) include Llívia, an exclave of Spain that's an enclave of France, and Nakhchivan, an exclave of Azerbaijan surrounded by Turkey, Armenia, and Iran.
---L.
It can be detached from the rest of the country by being across water from it, or by being surrounded by one or more other countries -- when it's just one, then the exclave is an enclave within the other country. This latter was the original case needing a name when the word was coined in the 1880s, by extension of enclave. Examples of true exclaves (that is, totally surrounded) include Llívia, an exclave of Spain that's an enclave of France, and Nakhchivan, an exclave of Azerbaijan surrounded by Turkey, Armenia, and Iran.
---L.
