& another question i believe you have asked here jesper
but you may or may not actually have meant
could be the richest one of all
namely which enclave i s the largest one
i would answer by saying lesotho
on the world class level
in terms of land territory alone
or if you recognize maritime territorial enclaves
& also the territorial waters of everyones land
aka the area in unclos lingo
then the largest enclave appears to be the one that is formed within the
territorial waters of everyones land or the area by the greater hawaiian
archipelago inclusive of kure & johnston islands along with all the
associated united states territorial waters
& this vast puffy cloud shaped area covering much of the central pacific is
of course many times larger in total area tho not in actual land area than
lesotho
m
also in sampling the really delicate questions such as these
it seems important to be clear what is meant by the words enclave & exclave
in every case & in every sense
or it gets to be an even bigger smorgasbord
so perhaps i have still not answered your question
i dont know
but it was tasty
>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:46:54 -0500
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>From: michael donner <m@...>
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>you feast us on some delicious & mind altering questions here jesper
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>for first
>in the case of equatorial guinea
>tho far separated by the bight of biafra
>the 2 dry instalments of this country are actually connected by a
>continuous wet instalment so that i think david would say in this case
>excuuse me but legally there really are no claves here
>
>& second
>unless you set some arbitrary but sensible rules
>like the chunk with the national capital within it must be considered the
>core entity or heartland & all other chunks are therefore the satellite
>entities
>regardless of relative sizes etc
>then you can no longer even declare denmark the winner because of greenland
>since denmark would then look like the exclave & greenland the heartland
>
>but for now it seems greenland may fulfill your quest for largest clave
>unless i am forgetting some other more pronounced case of size disparity
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>m
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>> Which is the largest enclave in relations to the main area? How
>>about Equatorial Guninea?
>>http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ek.html If the
>>capital is on an island so far from the main land is then the main land
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