Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Largest enclave
Date: Mar 12, 2001 @ 05:25
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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>From: michael donner <m@...>_________________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Largest enclave
>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:11:27 -0500
>
>i have a map by prescott that shows the 2 apparent fragments of equatorial
>guinea to be connected by maritime territory & thus not to really be
>fragments at all
>at least no more than sjaelland & continental denmark are fragments
>nor than any offshore island within the territorial waters of denmark or
>any other country is a fragment
>
>m
>
>by contrast i would say the danish island of bornholm is a true fragment
>because in this special case foreign maritime territory does cut it off
>completely from the rest of danish territory
>
>or have i missed your point
>
>
>
> >
> >No. Enclaves have to be totally surrounded by one other entity. Eq.G.'s
> >mainland is coastal and borders two other countries on land.
> >However, it is an interesting FRAGMENT, as although larger in area, and
> >'mainland', it is smaller in population than Rio Muni island, AND it does
> >not have the capital.
> >Other examples are:
> >Malasia, where E.Malaysia is larger, but has smaller pop and not the
>capital
> >Samoa, where the smaller island has the larger popn and the capital
> >Pakistan 1947-1971, where the western part was larger and had the
>capital,
> >but the East had more population.
> >Denmark, where the capital is on an island, not the larger mainland.
> >
> >Brendan
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: "Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen" <jesniel@...>
> >>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> >>To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> >>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Largest enclave
> >>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:48:13 +0100
> >>
> >>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>
> >>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
> >>
> >
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