NationStates Jolt Archive


What's that one geography term?

Oksana
23-03-2005, 12:29
What's that one term for countries that are inside of other countries? LIke Lesotho is inside of South Africa. That's called... Damn it can't remember.
Kanabia
23-03-2005, 12:30
Landlocked?
Not Legless Pirates
23-03-2005, 12:31
Surrounded?
Oksana
23-03-2005, 12:32
No. It's an actual term. Damn it! :mad:
Fass
23-03-2005, 12:36
What's that one term for countries that are inside of other countries? LIke Lesotho is inside of Swaziland. That's called... Damn it can't remember.

Lesotho is not inside Swaziland. It's surrounded by South Africa, while Swaziland borders both South Africa and Mozambique.
Oksana
23-03-2005, 12:37
Lesotho is not inside Swaziland. It's surrounded by South Africa, while Swaziland borders both South Africa and Mozambique.

Sorry, South Africa. Thanks!
Not Legless Pirates
23-03-2005, 12:38
I'm sticking with surrounded
New Fuglies
23-03-2005, 12:40
Circumscribed sounds better.
Eutrusca
23-03-2005, 12:42
No. It's an actual term. Damn it! :mad:
"Ethnie?"
Mukashu
23-03-2005, 12:44
What's that one term for countries that are inside of other countries? LIke Lesotho is inside of South Africa. That's called... Damn it can't remember.

Enclave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho
Oksana
23-03-2005, 12:45
It's an enclave. Yay! I figured it out.
Oksana
23-03-2005, 12:48
Enclave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho

Good job!
E Blackadder
23-03-2005, 12:52
by your description i would say

buggerd-in-a-war
The Mindset
23-03-2005, 14:31
by your description i would say

buggerd-in-a-war

Unless the state that surrounds them is on their side. :D
Ariddia
23-03-2005, 14:54
The correct geographical term is to say it's landlocked. But that depends whether you were looking for an adjective or a noun?
Kryozerkia
23-03-2005, 15:49
I agree. I would have gone with landlocked.
Ashmoria
23-03-2005, 17:07
The correct geographical term is to say it's landlocked. But that depends whether you were looking for an adjective or a noun?
switzerland is landlocked.
lesotho is inside another country
big difference
Alinania
23-03-2005, 17:47
The correct geographical term is to say it's landlocked. But that depends whether you were looking for an adjective or a noun?
Well yes, it's landlocked, too. But that's not the right term. Countries can be landlocked without being within another country.
Daistallia 2104
23-03-2005, 18:18
The correct geographical term is to say it's landlocked. But that depends whether you were looking for an adjective or a noun?

Nope, it's enclave. Landlocked means surronded by land, without an outlet to water. Lesotho is both an enclave and landlocked. Switzerland is landlocked, but not an enclave. Other enclaves include the Holy See, Monaco, and San Marino. The Gambia and Brunei are nearly enclaves.

An interesting related term is exclave, a part of a country separate from

Examples of exclaves include Alaska and Kaliningrad.,

en·clave
n.
1. A country or part of a country lying wholly within the boundaries of another.
2. A distinctly bounded area enclosed within a larger unit: ethnic enclaves in a large city
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=enclave

land·locked
adj.
1. Entirely or almost entirely surrounded by land: a landlocked country.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=landlocked


ENCLAVE is a state that is entirely enclosed within the land territory of another state, or some part of the territory of a state that is entirely enclosed within the land territory of another state. In those cases when the part of the state territory is not fully surrounded by the territory of another state because it has a sea border, it is named a semi-enclave.

EXCLAVE is an isolated part of a state that is surrounded by the territory of another state or states. It is simultaneously an enclave in relation to the country within which it is located.
http://www.vinokurov.info/enclaves.htm
DandylionEaters
23-03-2005, 18:29
What's that one term for countries that are inside of other countries? LIke Lesotho is inside of South Africa. That's called... Damn it can't remember.

Well you have the answer already, but my ears always prick up when hearing mention of my home country, go SA! :p