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some unusual and strange border of countries ...
« on: January 25, 2011, 05:17:09 AM »
 Spain/Morocco Border


Ceuta is an 18.5 square kilometres (7.1 sq mi) autonomous city in Spain  and an exclave located on the north coast of North Africa, surrounded by  Morocco. Separated from the Iberian peninsula by the Strait of  Gibraltar, Ceuta lies on the border of the Mediterranean Sea and the  Atlantic Ocean.  Morocco claims Ceuta, along with the Spanish autonomous  city of Melilla, and a number of Mediterranean islands which border it,  which has led Spain to ***** a 3 meter high border fence around the  city topped with barbed wire.
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Re: some unusual and strange border of countries ...
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2011, 05:17:18 AM »
 Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Baarle-Nassau is a Municipality in the Netherlands. It shares an unusual  border with the Belgian municipality of Baarle-Hertog. Baarle-Hertog  consists of 26 separate pieces of land surrounded by Baarle-Nassau, but  some portions of Baarle-Hertog also contain areas belonging to  Baarle-Nassau. The smallest parcel belonging to Belgium is only  two-thirds of an acre (one-quarter of a hectare). The border is so  complicated that there are even some houses that are bisected by it. In  the picture above you can see the Netherlands on the left and Belgium on  the right.
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Re: some unusual and strange border of countries ...
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2011, 05:17:29 AM »
 Bir Tawil
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bir Tawil is a plot of land about 795 square miles (2,060 square  kilometers) in size. It lies between Egypt and Sudan. It was  inadvertently created in 1902, when the United Kingdom drew a different  border from the one that was created in 1899. The two different borders  created two different areas, Bir Tawil and Halaib.
 Halaib has various resources, making it desirable, but Bir Tawil has  nothing. Therefore, Egypt claims the 1899 border, which gives Halaib to  Egypt and Bir Tawil to Sudan. Sudan, conversely, claims the 1902 border,  which gives Halaib to Sudan and Bir Tawil to Egypt. Each country  insists that Bir Tawil belongs to the other, making Bir Tawil the only  piece of land in the world (outside of Antarctica) that is not claimed  by any nation.
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Re: some unusual and strange border of countries ...
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Re: some unusual and strange border of countries ...
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2011, 05:17:53 AM »
 Derby Line, Vermont
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The town of Derby Line straddles the US/Canada border. The border passes  right through the town, even through some buildings and homes. In some  cases, a family at home cooks its meals in one country and eats them in  the other. Derby Line is also home to the Haskell Free Library and Opera  House, which was purposely built on the border. The opera stage is in  Canada, but the entrance to the opera, and most of the stage seats, are  in the United States. Because the building straddles the border, it has  two mailing addresses, one for the US and one for Canada.
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Re: some unusual and strange border of countries ...
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2011, 05:18:06 AM »
 Cooch-Behar District
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Cooch-Behar District has borders somewhat similar to the  Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog border. There are a number of parcels under  Bangladeshi jurisdiction that lie inside of India, and vice versa. An  additional peculiarity is the Indian area Balapara Khagrabari. As an  exclave, it is surrounded by Bangladeshi territory. However, it also  surrounds another Bangladeshi territory, and that territory itself  surrounds yet another Indian territory, Dahala Khagrabari, making it the  only place in the world where an exclave contains an exclave that  itself contains yet another exclave.
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