Lesotho is not an enclave either.
An enclave must be PART of a larger entity.
It is an ENCLAVED STATE, which differes from an ENCLAVE, as is made clear by
Catudal in his various works, and will be expanded on in my forthcoming
work.
It is the largest enclaved state currently.
Perhaps the Kandy Kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands was another, an
enclaved state on an island. It survived the Portuguese and Dutch, but got
civilised by the British, in 1815.
Only other enclaved states are San Marino and Vatican. SMOM, Seboga, Hutt
River etc do not 'officially' count...
B
>From: michael donner <m@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Largest enclave
>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:10:12 -0500
>
>& 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
> >To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> >From: michael donner <m@...>
> >Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Largest enclave
> >Cc:
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> >you feast us on some delicious & mind altering questions here jesper
> >
> >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
> >
> >m
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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
> >>an enclave? Jesper Yahoo! Groups Sponsor Register Your use
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