Alaska and Kaliningrad are both examples of exclaves.
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Exclave
//ˈɛkskleɪv//
Synonyms for "exclave"
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20 translations across 20 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- էքսկլավ noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 外飛地 /外飞地 noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Danish
1 entries- eksklave noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Dutch
1 entries- exklave noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Finnish
1 entries- eksklaavi noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
French
1 entries- exclave noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Georgian
1 entries- ექსკლავი noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
German
1 entries- Exklave noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Hawaiian
1 entries- lele noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Indonesian
1 entries- eksklave noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Macedonian
1 entries- екскла́ва noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- eksklave noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- eksklave noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Polish
1 entries- eksklawa noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Portuguese
1 entries- exclave noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Russian
1 entries- экскла́в noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Spanish
1 entries- exclave noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Swedish
1 entries- exklav noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Thai
1 entries- ดินแดนส่วนแยก noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Welsh
1 entries- allglofan noun (a country's territory not connected to the main part)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
While there has never been a macronational bedroom nation, some exclaves have been barely larger.
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Spain’s Melilla, one of two small exclaves of EU land on the African continent, has long been the strongest distillation of fortress Europe.
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France, but the shape of a giraffe, with a number of its counties belonging to Wales, with an odd little exclave far up North in Norway? That's border gore.
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