Interesting borders Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
border between two sovereign states
About Interesting borders
—Rudyard Kipling Anenclaveis a country or territory entirely surrounded by another. Examples of enclave countries areSan Marino(surrounded byItaly) andLesotho(surrounded bySouth Africa). Anexclaveis a part of a country or territory which is not contiguous with the rest of its land area, but on the same land mass. Some examples areAlaskaof theUnited States, andKaliningrad OblastofRussia. Atripointis the conjunction of three countries or territories. These are fairly common;quadripoints(conjunctions of four countries or territories) or higher-level conjunctions are rather unusual, and mostly appear in a colonial context, in which borders have been defined by straight lines between coordinates, rather than natural features. There are a couple of near-quadripoints, at which four countries or t
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