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exclave

[eks-kleyv] / ˈɛks kleɪv /
NOUN
territory
Synonyms
STRONGEST
area colony country district enclave field land nation neighborhood province sector state street terrain zone
STRONG
belt block boundary commonwealth dominion empire expanse extent mandate quarter section sphere township tract turf walk
WEAK
neck of the woods stomping grounds terrene

Example Sentences

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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 draft Russian defence ministry decree suggested moving the sea borders around Russian islands in the Gulf of Finland and around the exclave of Kaliningrad.

From BBC • May 22, 2024

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

From Reuters • Nov. 7, 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