ANSWER: It is world’s only third order enclave
Explanation:
- Dahala Khagrabari (#51) was an Indian enclave belonging to the District of Cooch Behar in the State of West Bengal. This was a piece of India within Bangladesh, within India, within Bangladesh.
- It is also known as Indian counter-counter enclave.
- It was the only third-order enclave in the world until 1 August 2015, when it was ceded to Bangladesh.
- In practice, it was a parcel of land used for farming and was not actually inhabited.
- It was one of the smallest - 7,000 square metres (1.7 acres) - of the Indo-Bangladesh enclaves, albeit not the smallest; the smallest being Panisala No. 79, an Indian enclave of 1,090 square metres (0.27 acres) in the Rangpur Division of Bangladesh.
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