Olympus: Lesotho is an enclaved country. Gambia, as noted, is not. The only other two enclaved countries in the world are San Marino and Vatican City in Italy.

Nick: Actually

Many countries have coastal fragments that can’t be directly accessed from the mainland except by boat or aeroplane. An extreme example of this is Alaska, detached from the Lower 48 of the United States of America by Canada, but at least four other tiny parts of the USA can’t be reached overland except by entering Canada:

I have to assume that you are talking about exclaves and enclaves as political concepts rather than ethnic or national “islands” cut off from the homeland (where their nation holds dominant political power). If so, we could get all technical-like, make Armenians 10 kinds of angry, and point out that Nagorno-Karabakh is legally Azeri territory. It was “autonomous” and voted to declare independence from the Azeri SSR under the Soviet Union, but still Azeri nonetheless. But then again, it’s kind of sort of an independent state. We can give that assertion a wink and a nod, and were we to consider it de facto part of Armenia, it’s not completely surrounded by territory controlled by another state.

I can’t seem to find a good map, but the enclaves around the Ferghana Valley are a damned mess.

And, just for the sake of good trivia, who can name the coastal exclaves of the 48 contiguous United States? Bonus for not looking it up.