The UN buffer zone runs up against Dhekelia and picks up again from its east side off Ayios Nikolaos and is connected to the rest of Dhekelia by a thin land corridor. In that sense the buffer zone turns the Paralimni area on the southeast corner of the island into a de facto, though not de jure, exclave.
The UN buffer zone runs up against Dhekelia and picks up again from its east side of,f Ayios Nikolaos and is connected to the rest of Dhekelia by a thin land corridor In that sense the buffer zone turns the Paralimni area on the south.east corner of the island into a de facto, though not de jure exclave.