Comments on: Complicated borders

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:39:06 +0000

If you want to see some really crazy borders, check out this spot on the Slovenian/Croatian border:

and

http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slika:Interesting_part_of_the_border_between_Slovenia_and_Croatia_in_Zumberak_region.png

By: H2Oral

H2Oral — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:26:09 +0000

Whaat?? These are complicated borders for you guys?
For really complicated borders check out the border between Uzbekistan and Kyrgizistan/Tajikistan.
The whole outline of Uzbekistan is full of enclaves and crazy borders…
It is rumored that when the Russians drew the borders, during the Soviet era, they did this on purpose to create conflict between the nations….

By: Cocal

Cocal — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:30:08 +0000

What about a countriy into another country? Like Vatican into Italia, or Lesoto into South Africa?

By: dikko

dikko — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:14:57 +0000

another nice site about enclaves, and also see the story of Cooch Behar at strangemaps

By: dr.R.

dr.R. — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:26:07 +0000

It is, isn't it? From this page: "The existence of such artifacts as boundary crosses can give rise to all sorts of philosophical and mathematical ponderings. For example, is Jungholz really connected to the rest of Austria, the boundary cross being a point and thus infinitely small? For the same reason, does Germany completely surround Jungholz or not? Certainly, it is not possible to travel from Austria to Jungholz through the point."

By: Alex Turnbull

Alex Turnbull — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:30:33 +0000

@dr. R. – Jungholz is brilliant! I love that it is only connected via a very steep peak, which apparently means that you can’t physically get from Austria to Jungholz without going into Germany.

By: Stuey

Stuey — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:20:33 +0000

This always strikes me as an odd one :

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

A random bit of the US stuck on the side of Canada

By: alexei

alexei — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:08:31 +0000

I believe the best post about Baarle is here And here is the nice list of enclaves/exclaves with the maps.

By: Flümo

Flümo — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:35:36 +0000

koen: Borders can be quite a bit off in google maps due to a low resolution of their border data in a lot of places. For example, I’m pretty sure all those straight lines and angles the border is shown to have aren’t the actual border.

And this: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth is certainly wrong – I just verified it against my Times atlas: The border does infact follow the river here.

By: koen

koen — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:52:59 +0000

I hope Moldova and Ukraine have a good border agreement; I followed the trainline back a while (bored? moi?), and I crossed the border quite a few times. From Moldava, into the Ukraine, to Moldova again then back into the Ukraine, to go through another short piece of Moldova and then it can go to Romania… Image being stopped at every crossing…