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The International Bureau of Weights and Measures is the English name of the Bureau international des poids et mesures (BIPM, often written in English Bureau International des Poids et Mesures), a standards organization, one of the three organizations established to maintain the International System of Units (SI) under the terms of the Convention du Mètre (Metre Convention). Note that the abbreviation IBWM does not exist. It is based at th ...

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This refers to those territories where a country is sovereign, but which cannot be reached without entering another country. The best-known example was West Berlin, before the reunification of Germany, which was de facto a West German exclave within East Germany, and thus an East German enclave (many small West Berlin land areas, such as Steinstücken, were in turn separated from the main one, some by only a few meters). De jure all of Berlin was ruled by the four Allied powers; this meant that West Berlin could not send voting members to the German Parliament, and that it ...

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Some countries may be enclaved inside another one, except for a small coastal section which allows them to have access to open waters. However, this access is more of a corridor. The most typical country of this kind is The Gambia, prevented only by a 50 km shore strip on the Atlantic Ocean from being an enclave of Senegal. The Sultanate of Brunei, within Malaysia. Brunei consists of two unconnected coastal parts. The smaller district of Temburong can be viewed as an exclave of Brunei, as well as an enclave in Malaysia ...

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Some areas of land in a country are owned by another country and in some cases it has special privileges, such as being exempt from taxes. These lands are not Enclaves and do not have Extraterritoriality. Examples of this include: Napoleon's original grave in Longwood, Saint Helena ceded to France. The World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Normandy, France which contains the graves of 9,386 American military dead, most of whom gave their lives during the landings and ensuing operations of World ...

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Embassies and military bases are usually exempted from the jurisdiction of the host country, i.e., the laws of the host nation the embassy is in do not typically apply to the land of the embassy or base itself. This exemption from the jurisdiction of the host coutry is defined as extraterritoriality. Areas of extraterritoriality are not true enclaves as they are still part of the host country. In addition to embas ...

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Some enclaves are countries in their own right, completely surrounded by another one, and therefore not exclaves. Three such sovereign countries exist: The republic of San Marino, enclaved within Italy Vatican City, within the city of Rome, in Italy The Kingdom of Lesotho, embedded inside South Africa See also List of countries that only border one other country. ...

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Some territories cannot be reached from the country they belong to except by international waters. These are considered detached fragments of their motherland rather than enclaves, since they do not meet the criterion of being enclosed on all sides by foreign territory. Some examples: The Spanish towns Ceuta and Melilla on the north coast of Morocco. The British colony of Gibraltar, on the south coast of Spain. Oecussi-Ambeno, a fragment of East Timor geographically within the Indonesian part of Timor (West Tim ...

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Enclave, Enclave - Enclaved countries, Enclave - Coastal countries, Enclave - Coastal fragments, Enclave - True enclaves, Enclave - Practical enclaves, Enclave - Subnational enclaves, Enclave - Ethnic enclaves, Enclave - Extraterritoriality, Enclave - Land ceded to a Foreign Country

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