Thanks guys, you’re awesome! I’m looking at all of the links you gave me.
well two of us with the same memory just may be a bad map or encyclopedia, I definitely remember the map that way though.
Aren’t they in fact entirely contained within the Vatican? That would make the SMOM doubly locked.
I always felt bad for Portugal; they have to talk to Spain if they want to drive anywhere.
In addition to the fact it’s part of Russia, it borders Mongolia, not China.
(I’ll admit I thought it was an island nation in the South Pacific. But then all I know about Tuva is the throat singing, anyway.)
We have pictures of the Delegation of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Prague, but we’d thought it was the country. In any case, hey, wouldn’t the Order of Malta have at least two buildings? One in Rome and one in Prague 
(The linked webpage has a kind’a cute timeline: it starts from when the islands became a colony; I’m reasonably sure things had happened there before - those medieval buildings weren’t built by the Brits)
(Yes, I know it isn’t exactly true that a country’s embassy is territory of that country and there’s a thread about it. But heck, in this case it would multiply the territory of the place).
No, the ‘territories’ of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta are not within the Vatican. The Palazzo Malta is on the Via dei Condotti, while the Villa Malta is on the Aventine.
IMHO to consider the order of Malta a “country” is kind of silly as they are not a country in any real sense of the word. They may be “recognized” (whatever that means) but they are not a country. There are other organizations, like the UN, Nato, etc., which may be able to issue pasports, etc, but are also not countries in the common sense of the word. And if you want to go to the extreme of acalling anything a country then the UN in NYC or NATO in Brussels or the Red Cross in Switzerland are also landlocked countries.
You’re thinking of Tuvalu.
As I wrote, over a hundred countries recognize the SMOM a country. No offense, but you’re going to have to offer something more than your opinion on the subject to outweigh that.
How about some common sense. Even the Order themselves do not call themselves a “country”.
In other words, more like the Red Cross and other NGOs.
So, it is a “sovereign entity other than a state”. I find it comical that they exchange ambassadors with the Vatican. All they have is a building and they exchange “ambassadors”? Let’s get real.
I think the case of Kaliningrad is highly interesting - although it’s not land-locked, it is a tiny bit of Russia broken off and between two other countries. Just an FYI.
As someone pointed out in a Wikipedia article on microstates, SMOM is the surviving example of a sovereignty that is not a nation or country. The Holy See would be another example, but is now also the government of Vatican City. It’s a knightly order which at one time was enfeoffed to the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, and became autocephalic when that kingdom fell. There was a point at which it was the government of Malta the nation, but it lost a war. Interestingly, it also briefly (~4 years) had a New World colony (in the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession, in which it was tangentially involved): St. Croix, now U.S.V.I.
(And, not having previewed, I see I duplicatre some of what sailor had to say. But I’ll leave this for the additional info. I provided that he did not.)
Which makes it an exclave.
Forgive my ignorance of Canadian geography but I’m figuring Quebec, if it ever seceded, would share a body of water with the US?
Most American Indian Nations are landlocked. This is a case of nested citizenship though, where the citizens of the inner nation are also citizens of the surrounding country.
Quebec has dry-land borders with the states of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. AFAIK, Ontario has no dry-land border with the U.S., though some of the water bodies that together comprise the border are rivers that are relatively easily bridged. (Going downstream, they are Rainy River, Lake Superior, Sault Ste, Marie, Lake Huron, St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, Detroit River, Lake Erie, Niagara River, Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River.) The Quebec-New York land border begins “before” (i.e. upstream of the point where) the line bounding Ontario and Quebec reaches the St. Lawrence River.
I guessed the meaning of the second word , but I genuinely doubted the legitimacy of the first. Well done, Mr P! 
Vocabulary ++ even although it leaves me a bit discombobulated.
The Master speaks on the definition of “country.”
FYI, the person who asked that question is very, very close to me.
Similarly, the Republic of Tatarstan has declared independence from Russia, but that’s only on paper. Still, the Tatarstan government claims sovereignty over its own territory, meanwhile their citizenship is nested within that of Russia, sort of like an American Indian nation. We have our own Tatarstan over here, the Iroquois Nation has declared its sovereignty too, and issued its own passports.