exclave

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US President Donald Trump's administration has also promoted a proposed road-and-rail corridor designed to link Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave, cut off from the mainland by Armenian territory.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

But Iran owns only one shore of the strait—Oman’s Musandam exclave sits on the other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 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 route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by Armenian territory.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

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