Interesting Enclaves & Exclaves From Around The World

[@BruhOfficial_YT]

The enclaves between India and Bangladesh are the most bizarre enclaves but fortunately the government fixed them!

[@Aayushkoiral]

Not are were all enclave has been solved

[@brontewcat]

You forgot Timor Leste, the eastern part of the island of Timor. It has an exclave in West Timor of Oecusse.

[@tommivehniainen1030]

There are at least 3 cases that should have been included 1) Kyrgyzstan / Tajikistan / Uzbekistan 2) Bangladesh / India 3) Oman / United Arab Emirates

[@Voilabo]

only learnt about the third today whilst looking at google maps. love how there is uae, and inside is and oman exclave, and inside is an uae exclave. love to know the situation on that!

[@skyfeelan]

the bangladesh india enclave/exclave is solved already, they swapped their territorries

[@wrvpgod2155]

Could have… make your own video.

[@sydhenderson6753]

And Germany/Switzerland. If we are counting countries which border only one other country as semi-exclaves, then you have Haiti, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, South Korea and Qatar. Gibraltar is an exclave of the UK as are those two air force bases in Cyprus. Canada and Denmark used to be until they agreed to split a tiny island off Greenland.

[@pulaski1]

​​@sydhenderson6753 And Campoione d'Italia is an Italian enclave in Switzerland. However Gibraltar is not part of the UK, it is owned by the UK but not actually part of it. .... Unlike France’s overseas territories, which _are_ part of France.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

San Marino exists because during the unification of Italy, San Marino served as a refuge for many people persecuted because of their support for unification, including Giuseppe Garibaldi and his wife Anita. To thank them for helping so much, Garibaldi allowed San Marino to remain independent. The country derives its name from Saint Marinus, a stonemason from the then-Roman island of Rab in present-day Croatia. Born in 275 AD, Marinus participated in the rebuilding of Rimini's (an Italian city near San Marino) city walls after their destruction by Liburnian pirates. Marinus then went on to create an independently ruled monastic community on Monte Titano in 301 AD. San Marino's constitution was written all the way back in 1600! San Marino's constitution dictates that its democratically elected legislature, the Grand and General Council, must elect two heads of state every six months. Known as captains regent, the two heads of state serve concurrently and with equal powers. During the American Civil War, San Marino proposed a republican alliance with the United States, and its government made Abraham Lincoln an honorary citizen!

[@WanderlustGoGo]

Switzerland has an Enclave in Germany and Italy in Switzerland Büsingen and Campione dItalia❤

[@mdau]

If Monaco, The Gambia, and Brunei are semi-enclaves, then wouldn’t this also apply to Portugal, South Korea, or any country surrounded by water and one land border?

[@carlwilkerson9722]

The Northern Angle. There is a bit of Minnesota cut off from the rest of the state by a lake (in Minnesota, no less!) and accessible from there only by driving through Canada briefly.

[@cherry560]

Thank you, I could not come up with the name. LOL!! I have watched several videos about it.

[@50runeeli]

There's also Gibraltar Ceuta and Melilla

[@rafaelvaliati3728]

If Alaska is considered an exclave, French Guiana would be too right?

[@SolisBetter]

@@srt4672then kaliningrad isnt either

[@mrbanana6492]

its an oversea territory while there is land(Canada) between Alaska and US

[@COLINJELY]

What about Oecusse, Timor Leste, surrounded by Indonesia and also the now defunct Principality of Hutt River?

[@Concelhosembicicleta]

The are more exclaves/enclaves in Belgium with the German border.

[@geraldwagner8739]

The Vennbahn

[@borschel9665]

Oh, you missed out sooooo many more. Just to mention a few: Kleinwalsertal belongs to Austria but is completely surrounded by Germany, same as Jungholz belonging to Austria but completely surrounded by Germany. Büsingen am Hochrein belongs to Germany but is completely surrounded by Switzerland. Campione d’Italia belongs - as the name says - to Italy, but is completely surrounded by Switzerland, Ceuta and Meilla belong to Spain, but are completely surrounded by Morocco. Brezovica Zumberacka belongs to Croatia, but is surrounded by Slovenia

[@jineshjain10]

The most interesting example of an enclave is in UAE. There is a small town called MADHA which is a territory of Oman (completely inside UAE). And then there is a town of NAHWA which is a territory of UAE (but completely inside the mentioned Oman territory!!). So it is an Enclave inside an Enclave! A UAE area inside Oman area inside UAE area! Crazy!!

[@jovanweismiller7114]

The State of Iowa in the US has a semi-exclave, called Carter Lake, accessible to the rest of the state only by swimming the Missouri River or by driving through Nebraska.

[@rapidthrash1964]

Press F12 to pay respect to the folk’s swimming from Poland to Kaliningrad just to see what happens

[@Firebiono]

F 1 2

[@scottman_plays_youtube]

I've always wondered why Azerbaijan has territory on the other side of Armenia

[@Chocoalate77]

This video taught me a lot about the difference of an enclave and exclave thank you!

[@felixschwab9850]

My "favorite" exclave, if that even makes sense, is Llivia, a Spanish exclave within France. There are a ton of regional ex or enclaves of the autonomous regions within the country as well, but that goes beyond this video, so I'll just mention Ceuta and Melilla as well.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

I was wondering about Andorra but discovered it is simply a land-locked country.

[@robertrisk93]

Yes, it is bordered by Spain and France. The name is Andorra La Vella, that for spanish speaking people seems to mean Andorra the beautiful, but really means Andorra the old, in catalan, the country's official language.

[@jiche57]

Brunei's bridge isn't over Malaysian waters. The territorial waters of the two bits of Brunei are contiguous. Interestingly, the part of Malaysia (Limbang) sandwiched in between Brunei has no roads to the rest of Malaysia except through Brunei, so it is practically an enclave.

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

07:00 The Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau situation is so messy that not only can one house be in Nassau, and the neighboring house in Hertog, but also the house itself in one territory, and its garden in the othe one.

[@tabletgenesis3439]

"Mom, can I go play in my garden?" "No, you'll come back with waffles and french fries!"

[@davidgreenhow7811]

On the eastern US/Canada border is Campobello Island, which is part of Canada but the only land route is through the US. Maybe Canada could trade it to the States for Point Roberts.

[@rheffner3]

You forgot about the Italian enclave that is inside of Switzerland.

[@FastGuy1]

Campione D Italia! I visited that exclave

[@julianac2143]

I was waiting for you to mention greenland and other outside territories of france, would love to watch a part 2 talking about these!!!

[@natha_ow]

UAE and Oman also have an interesting enclave / exclave situation. Also an enclave, within an enclave (Nahwa). Thanks for the video! 😊

[@yvelf]

There are exclaves and enclaves in Oman and UAE. These are very interesting as theres an exclave within and exclave within another exclave. Very weird, complicated and extremely interesting.

[@BloxyBlitz]

nice information i forgot Exclaves are not connected to the rest of the last Enclaves are just trapped in a country

[@rickwightman2366]

It's my understanding that the monument area of Vimy Ridge in France was gifted to Canada. If true would this be considered as an enclave, or similar to the status of an embassy?

[@larsyvindgrindrud1720]

We have an interesting case in Norway, i,e, Barentsburg that is a Russian town in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Another one that I have visited is a peninsula belonging to Oman separated from the mother country by the UAE,The name is Musandam. , Otherwise we have more cases like Kaliningrad, i.e, Gibraltar (UK in Spain) and Ceuta and Melilla (Spain in Morocco).

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Is Kaliningrad not a semi-exclave in winter because Finland and Estonia have a border on ice then?

[@zachv]

No

[@thesupertight5684]

I’ve always wondered what the point of enclaves are. Can already tell this video will be good :)

[@AndrewCastlemaine]

Stand to be corrected but I think Longwood House and the surrounding gardens - which was Napoleon's residence on the British island of Saint Helena - is considered French territory and would thus be an exclave

[@lucasmontb6437]

The two photos you showed for Monaco are not from Monaco 🤦 The first one is from Nice the French city 40 min away from Monaco, and the second is Menton another French city...

[@petel4119]

Pedants corner here. Alaska is 1.7 million square kilometers rather than 1.7 million kilometers squared.

[@stevepalmberg5905]

Northwest angle MN

[@ludovicusclericus]

Campione d'Italia, Italy. Llívia, Spain.

[@ChrisHockman]

We had a trip to Estonia and were told not to swim too far so we didn’t end up in Russia

[@Ezekiel.rex-m_velasco]

Is Portugal also a semi enclave?

[@Dracopol]

5:50 "Contiguous" is pronounced [kənˈtiɡyo͞oəs] (with a hard-G sound).

[@henokbuchem7605]

Should've been better if the maps were used desinared with colors for better understanding

[@datszalami8689]

Isn't Portugal a semi enclave too?

[@eedoo2]

What about the Kleines Walsertal in Austria, which is technically within Austrian borders, but can, due to its topography, only be reached from Germany?

[@TheSeafordian]

I've been to San Marino. It rained.

[@alexanderbecerra8575]

Campione d’Italia which lies entirely within Swiss borders.

[@knockeledup]

India & Bangladesh + the Stans: “Are we just a joke to you?”

[@TrazorBones]

I always thought Eswatini, just like Lesotho, was an enclave country. Clearly I have all these years just made that assumption and now I feel embarrassed. :/ :D

[@zinidone4872]

And, yes, Greenland too!

[@AllThingsMoz]

There's a difference between "square kilometres" and "kilometres squared". You're suggesting countries are larger than the earth

[@AllThingsMoz]

Yes there is

[@AllThingsMoz]

100 square kilometres could be a grid of 10x10 kilometres. 100 kilometres squared is equivalent to a grid of 100x100

[@kostasjezuz4846]

I did not know of Cabinda province, while I'm quite familiar with everything else on this video. Browsing maps I found there are villages belonging to Oman that are inside UAE territory...

[@kostasjezuz4846]

Also, there is a part of Croatia split off by Bosnia

[@gurrrn1102]

Onclave and oxclave

[@philburford3978]

Portugal seems to meet the criteria.

[@DarylBaines]

Gibraltar - a piece of the UK (which voted against Brexit) connected to Spain I believe there is a Spanish enclave/exclave in Morroco (don't know what it is) How about French Guiana? Tecnically part of France and residents have full Frcnch citizenship.

[@jimmyc3238]

7:18 "OKay Weelde"?? Your next assignment, Geography Bible man.....

[@TheSylfaein]

Not a country, but the city/state of Bremen, Germany is technically "landlocked" within Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) while having an exclave at the North Sea coast with the harbour town Bremerhaven. There's also the case of the municipality Büsingen: completely surrounded by Switzerland, yet part of the German city Konstanz (Baden-Württemberg). Or the even more interesting case of the now Belgian Vennbahn, a former Prussian railway, splitting several cities and parts off of Germany's western border, leading to 5(!) exclaves within a few kilometers.

[@F.G_7even]

I see u put bolivia and romania at the start

[@ChrisW101]

4:17 What about SIngapore?? Hong Kong? Macao?

[@zach2382]

No Singapore is an island islands don’t count in Hong Kong and Macau are not countries

[@nickbrown5457]

How about Angle in northern Minnesota?

[@globotecinc.3018]

It's actually called the North Angle

[@rosiefay7283]

3:54 You've forgotten: Portugal (which borders only Spain), Canada (which borders only the USA, unless you count Hans Island, in which case make that Greenland, which borders only Canada), Sri Lanka (which borders only India), Papua New Guinea (which borders only Indonesia), and pairs of countries which semi-enclave each other: The UK and the Republic of Ireland ; likewise Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

[@zach2382]

Portugal is not almost completely surrounded by one country but I guess that’s the best one you have Canada no Sri Lanka an island countries are completely or almost completely surrounded by that other country the border.

[@dharanichakravarthi]

Fun fact: India & Sri Lanka share a small land border of just 45meters in a shoal called the 9th island in the Adam's bridge region.

[@antalbalazsnador7657]

@@dharanichakravarthi I could not find it on Google map. Google shows only islands numbered as 1, 2, 4, 5, 6

[@sydhenderson6753]

@@dharanichakravarthi I didn't know that!

[@henryhawthorn8849]

Nogorno Karabakh, should be considered an exclave of Armenia inside of Azerbaiyan. Although, that exclave probably doesn’t exist anymore after Azerbaijani troops occupied, it, which was a breakaway unrecognized republic consisting of Armenians.

[@ОрханМамедли-й9ъ]

What does “enclave of Armenia” mean if it was an “unrecognized state”? “Occupied” according to whom, if this unrecognized “state” was not recognized by anyone? Thus, Azerbaijan could not occupy its own territory, but cleared its territory of illegal militants. So yes, from now on there is no “Nagorno-Karabakh” enclave

[@nathanaelsadgrove]

I've never heard of semi enclaves before, and I'd be intested in the source, as the definition given here excludeds alot of examples that apparently are not according to the video.

[@pulaski1]

If Monaco and Gambia are "semi-enclaves", then by the same rules, Canada should be too!

[@miatx6818]

What about the India Bangladesh border enclave/exclave mess and the weird one with UAE and Oman

[@zach2382]

That Bangladesh Indian border thing was made up Also, it’s not a complete in earlier total list of every single exclave an enclave and never claimed to be.

[@allenarmstrong7435]

Has there not been a major effort in recent years to sort this mess out?. It’s years since visited Tin Bigha a Bangladesh enclave in India and one small part of this but the myriad enclave pockets of both countries. The border was open in one direction from Bangladesh into the enclave for an hour, I think, then closed so the intra-India movement could resume, then reopened the following hour for access from Bangladesh. Apart from poor services, they used to claim that fugitives from justice could be found in the smaller enclaves.

[@jeffreydeeds9225]

There is a smattering of enclaves along the Tajikistan and Uzbekistan border.

[@richardbentley734]

They could all be Television City

[@antalbalazsnador7657]

What would make Vatican en enclave? This is a sovereign country. just because it has no other neighbors than Italy, it's not en enclave. It's simply a landlocked country.

[@sergicb1533]

I guess from an Italian point of view is an enclave.

[@cappyjones]

It's surrounded on all sides by the *same country.* That's how it's different from just being landlocked.

[@antalbalazsnador7657]

@@cappyjones thank you

[@Spacestationjay]

Azerbaijan and Armenia have pockets of land in each others borders

[@jameskingston3058]

Now that Artshak has ceased to exist as a de facto state this is no longer true.Azerbaizan has an exclave on the Turkish/Armenian border but is not surrounded by Armenian territory.

[@WolfNel]

you left out exclave...campione d Italia....and oss....and llivia...

[@Matijhsen]

I think Korea and Portugal match the definition

[@TOKaAEUPOP_Geography]

THAT SI ROMANIA IN EXAMPLE

[@Filian777]

Thank you for putting romania!!!🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴

[@christensjeroen]

what about singapore and oecussi in timor-leste

[@zach2382]

Singapore is an island and also it’s not a complete exhaustive list of every single exclave on earth

[@pulaski1]

If Monaco is a semi-enclave, doesn’t that mean that Ireland, Portugal, and Canada, among a number of other countries, are also semi-enclaves? 🤔

[@prplt]

yeah I was thinking South Korea and Denmark 😂

[@LexUniverse]

i don't know, by your logic, wouldn't Haiti and Dominican republic also be semi-enclaves?

[@gxdmax]

fire vid

[@heterodoxagnostic8070]

when it came to semi enclaves i guessed canada and brunei, why isn't canada a semi-enclave of the USA?

[@zach2382]

Brunei is almost completely surrounded by Malaysia, and only borders. Malaysia Canada does not only border of the United States as a maritime border with France and as of recently has a border with Denmark

[@heterodoxagnostic8070]

true.

[@dalecooper9942]

Sub Marino is a pretty little country

[@sydhenderson6753]

And underwater apparently. :)

[@mechazawa001]

You forgot Timor-Leste

[@rp-kt1le]

Area is square kilometers , not kilometers squared !

[@dvongrad]

Getting from Northern Ireland to the UK proper is certainly within UK territorial waters, but you do NOT have to use Canadian territorial waters to get from Alaska to mainland US.

[@Theabtheabtheab]

None of the pictures shown during the monaco part was actually Monaco…😂

[@grantvincent5073]

What about Guantanamo Bay in Cuba

[@greatpyramid4348]

That’s part of Cuba people have no idea what the underground situation in Guantánamo Bay you probably think it’s being colonized by the United States know it’s a military base the old government of Cuba let the US have the US keeps on making the payments to the new government. The new government just hasn’t cashed any of the checks nor has a kicked it off the island by officially it is Cuban territory

[@steve3425]

Guantanamo Bay is leased land, not legally part of the United States.

[@benfoss3887]

Check the border between India and Bangladesh

[@zach2382]

That is not even there anymore

[@FewVidsJustComments]

You mispronoucned "Czechia" wrong at 0:50

[@50runeeli]

what

[@FewVidsJustComments]

@@50runeeli Czechia doesn’t have an r in it

[@AndrewCastlemaine]

At risk of annoying Moroccan people (not intentionally) you could add Ceuta and Melilla as (disputed) Spanish exclaves bordering Morocco

[@Parso77]

As you go on to explain, embassies are not actually enclaves because they are under the sovereignty of the host country. Just like airports, basically. It is just a convention that the laws of the host country are not necessarily applied to visiting diplomats - though even that is the case whether they are in their embassy or not. The reason people can hang out in embassies to avoid conviction is that the host country rarely proactively applies its laws in them - but that is only a convention.

[@harcovanhees394]

During the Lockerbie-trials, a part of the Netherlands near Soesterberg was made a Scottish territory

[@kerouac2]

Andorra? Llivia?

[@zach2382]

Andorra surrounded by two countries Also, this list is not a complete an exhaustive list of every single exclave on earth.

[@zinidone4872]

Hi. And what about Andorra, Liechtenstein and Hawaai?

[@zach2382]

Islands don’t count, neither do country surrounded by two other countries and you spelled Hawaii wrong

[@mj2495]

Eswatini

[@Techstrobe]

no mention of india/bangladesh's complete mess before it was solved, azerbaijan, llivia, or omani territory in uae. missed opportunities to educate.

[@GamerGuyShorts]

One more should have been included - Eswatini is a semi - exclave

[@sydhenderson6753]

No it's not. It borders two other countries.

[@mighty494admiral8]

hong kong

[@DavidSJr]

Also Azerbaijan has an exclave

[@Neophlegm]

In these comments: dozens of "YOU FORGOT X" on a video not claiming to be exhaustive....

[@bruno4646]

why isn't Portugal in the same category as Monaco, the Gambia and Brunei? it's completely surrounded by another country and the sea

[@MrPictor]

And South Korea

[@minchiee]

Portugal has oversea territories

[@CaritasGothKaraoke]

Monaco isn’t even close. Just because you can trace a line from France back to France following its coastline doesn’t make it any sort of any-clave. The same could be said of Spain! (Yes, you’d go through Portugal in the process, but even if you discounted Spain for that, then Portugal itself would follow the same logic.) Just because it’s small doesn’t make it an enclave.

[@sydhenderson6753]

Semi-enclave since it only borders France and the sea. Spain borders four other countries, so doesn't qualify as a semi-enclave, but Portugal does.

[@minchiee]

Portugal has oversea territories, so it has other borders

[@robertfoulkes1832]

​@@minchieeNot true. Portugal has no overseas territories. All its former colonial possessions are either independent (e.g. Angola, Guinea-Bissau) or have been subsumed into other countries (e.g. Goa into India, Macau into China). Madeira and the Azores are island groups which are part of Portugal but as such they have no land borders.

[@minchiee]

​@@robertfoulkes1832thanks for the correction. I was certain one of the islands had a border or something

[@nobodyinparticular8195]

Should have done the India and Bangladesh border or the many exclaves of Uzbekistan in Central Asia

[@mellow-01942]

Hello!

[@gxdmax]

plz notice me

[@Joanna-il2ur]

Not so much a country as a tax dodge. We have Jersey, Guernsey and The Isle of Man, plus Bermuda, Turks & Caicos and Cayman Islands. We know a tax dodge when we see one.

[@dyslexicfomo7618]

And the British Virgin Islands too

[@Joanna-il2ur]

@@dyslexicfomo7618 oh yes. Probably the first thing they rebuilt after the hurricane was the banking business.

[@cycklist]

Nothing much original here, mate. This has all been covered many times.