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This exclave continues to exist in spite of the 2015 land swap. Dahagram 15.690 6.058: Largest chhit of Bangladesh, part of the Dahagram-Angarpota composite exclave within India. Nalgram: 7.705 2.975: Composite exclave of Bangladesh within India, comprises the contiguous Falnapur and Nalgram (#52) chhits. Nalgram (#52) 5.655 2.183
Dahagram–Angarpota is a Bangladeshi enclave in India about 200 m (660 ft) away from the border of Bangladesh. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It had a population of 17,000 people in 2014. [ 3 ] Dahagram–Angarpota was the second-largest enclave and the largest Bangladeshi enclave among historical Indo-Bangladesh enclaves .
After the exchange of enclaves with India under the Land Boundary Agreement on 31 July 2015, Bangladesh retained it as an exclave. The Tin Bigha Corridor, a strip of Indian territory 85 metres (279 ft) wide running from the enclave to the Bangladesh mainland at its nearest approach, was leased to Bangladesh for 999 years for access to the enclave.
At 7,000 square metres (1.7 acres)— approximately the size of a soccer field— it was one of the smallest of the India–Bangladesh enclaves: 106 Indian exclaves inside Bangladesh and 92 Bangladeshi exclaves inside India.
The Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan is an example of an exclave that is not an enclave, as it borders Armenia, Iran, and Turkey. Semi-enclaves and semi-exclaves are areas that, except for possessing an unsurrounded sea border (a coastline contiguous with international waters), would otherwise be enclaves or exclaves.
Road connecting Dahagram-Angarpota enclave with mainland Bangladesh. The border fence around Tin Bigha Corridor. According to the Indira Gandhi-Sheikh Mujibur Rahman treaty of 16 May 1974, India and Bangladesh were to hand over the sovereignty of the Tin Bigha Corridor (178 by 85 metres (584 ft × 279 ft)) and South Berubari (7.39 km 2 (2.85 sq mi)) to each other, thereby allowing access to ...
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is a extensive hilly area in Bangladesh, lie in the southeastern part of the country (210 25' N to 230 45' N latitude and 910 54' E to 920 50' E longitude) bordering the Indian state of Tripura on the north, Rakhine State of Myanmar on the south, Chin state of Myanmar and Indian state Mizoram on the east, Chittagong District and Cox's Bazar District on the west.
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