Meaning & use
Exclave
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A portion of a country or territory that is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding foreign territory.
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Kaliningrad is a Russian exclave situated between Poland and Lithuania.
The small exclave could only be reached by crossing through a neighboring country.
A note on using this word
An exclave for one country is often simultaneously an "enclave" for the country that surrounds it; the two terms describe the same territory from opposite perspectives.
Words with an opposite meaning
enclave
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