• blaue_Fledermaus
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      241 month ago

      Small text explains that exclaves are excluded, otherwise Brazil also has a land border with France.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        1 month ago

        Had to think about this but I don’t think an island is considered an exclave.

        The reason for this is because it is entirely surrounded by water, not another piece of land. Islands are not usually considered to be exclaves.

        https://homework.study.com/explanation/is-hawaii-an-exclave.html it’s paywalled but the answer came through on google.

        The island is right beside both Canadian and Denmark (greenland) land, so it’s not exactly isolated or surrounded by either.

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              19 days ago

              Oh shit, yeah, I forget it’s considered an island.

              I see Indonesia borders Papua on that map, and that’s the same situation. Plus, Greenland isn’t treated separately from Denmark, which would be the other possibility.

              Maybe they don’t have data on it? /s

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        Edit: I’m wrong, ignore the rest of my comment. Leaving it around for the world to see my shame.

        An enclave is one country’s land that’s completely surrounded by another country’s land.

        The land border between Canada and Denmark is on an island, and each country “owns” half the island. There’s no enclave involved here.

      • @[email protected]
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        130 days ago

        It’s totally arbitrary for the purposes of making the map look better. Otherwise Indonesia wouldn’t be on the continent.