ITT: Post geopolitical oddities.
I just love how there's a piece of Canada that the USA-Canada border just slices off and it's part of the states for no real reason.
Germany and Austria are seperate countries for some reason.
I wonder if anyone lives there.
>>51791684
A bit more than 1000 people. It's pretty inconvenient for them, because they have to cross the border twice.
>>51791540
austrians speak the non gay german while germans speak the gay german with the arabic "R"
>>51791915
or they just use boats
>>51791915
Makes you think, that tiny spec on the map is home to 1000 people, each going about their lives with their own friends, experiences, interests. the world is truly a gigantic place.
>>51791966
Austrians and Bavarians speak the same dialect
>>51792277
I don't think human mind can really comprehend how much 7 billion people are
her's one
the belgium-dutch border of Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau
>>51793221
>>51790517
>>51793290
kek
>>51793221
Pretty much a non-country
>>51793257
Similar, Brazil-Uruguay border in a square
>>51790517
>>51793257
>tfw you're a Dutch guy with a profound hate for Belgium
>tfw you have to enter Belgium to make a sandwich
>every. single. day.
>tfw the toilet is located on the Dutch side
>you eat in Belgium and shit in the Netherlands
>life is suffering
>>51790517
There's a section on the patagonian ice fields where we have no official border with Argentina (yet)
This takes the cake: the triple enclave.
>>51793450
So if you build a house there are you in Chile or Argentina? Both? Neither?
>>51793450
Although the future borders will probably look something like this cause they are supposed to go by the highest peaks. (red). Or it could also be a straight line (blue)
>>51790517
Iirc the location is used for witness protection since anyone who'd go after them would have to cross the border twice.
>>51790517
It happens in Minnesota, too
>>51793601
The place is State owned, you can't build anything there
>>51793601
>>51793775
Also, It's a fucking glacier.
Pic related is the access Serbia has to the sea, a tiny area between two Croatian regions
>>51793756
There's also some weirdness along the Mississippi River, where the river used to demarcate the state lines, but changed course, and the state lines remained the same.
>>51793849
That's Bosnia, mate
>>51793858
You mean Bosnia.
>>51793858
>>51794015
No, I mean the Mississippi River.
Nowhere near Bosnia.
I think you wanted to talk to the Brit. >>51793849
>>51793221
Seriously how did this happen?
And when it happened how did someone in charge not immediately say "Hey maybe we should work this out, this seems retarded"
The small circled areas are Azerbaijani enclaves inside Armenia. Zoom in some more and you'll see dozens of them.
>>51794092
The border's complexity results from a number of equally complex medieval treaties, agreements, land-swaps and sales between the Lords of Breda and the Dukes of Brabant. Generally speaking, predominantly agricultural or built environments became constituents of Brabant, other parts devolved to Breda. These distributions were ratified and clarified as a part of the borderline settlements arrived at during the Treaty of Maastricht in 1843.
it's from the link
We put some borders inside your borders
>>51793419
This map is Reddit-tier Justin.
Brunei is separated by a little stretch of Malaysia
how would you like your island senpai
The Four Corners monument at the border of Utah/Colorado/New Mexico/Arizona is actually about a mile too far east.
Congress changed the border so that it matches the monument
>>51794118
JUST
>>51794453
>Poles
>>51791915
I knew a girl who moved there. She had to get bused to school, and it would take over a hour each way.
>>51792086
There's no boats.
A lot of rich foreigners who work in Vancouver live in Point Roberts. They don't live in Canada, so they don't have to pay as much in taxes. A lot of foreign hockey players do it.
People like living there, because it's effectively a gated community. Real safe place.
Canadians like it because they can go there to buy cheap alcohol.
>>51790517
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>>51792277
My aunt retired to Port Roberts, actually. AMA
>>51794682
Why?
>>51791540
Because they lost the war with Prussia
If you're a woman you can't go here.
>>51794729
Canadian husband and relative closeness to his family in the Lower Mainland and my family in Puget Sound. Plus significantly cheaper gas only available in Point Roberts.
The border Norway-Russia-Finland consist of three timezones and you will actually go one hour forward if you go west, from norway into finland.
Also a fun fact; Norway is the 4 easternmost country on the european peninsula
>>51794847
where and why?
>>51795301
Mount Athos. It's a monastic community in Greece and they specifically requested it so women can't tempt them, around 1000 years ago.
>>51794930
What happens in Norway adjacent to Russia? Is there any industry?
>>51793836
It's not a glaciar, it's an ice field. The whole thing is bigger than Israel, it has almost the same size as Switzerland.
>>51795475
Wow
I think I found a new desktop background
It is sometimes hard to grasp how enormous some countries are, that they have such big areas go unused
>>51795441
Mining and fishing
Also, they're preparing for an ice free arctic so there's also some construction work
the wierd set of islands just south of Newfoundland, Canada that belong to France, St. Pierre et miquelon
>>51793444
Made me chuckle. Nice trips t*rkroach
>>51795871
>Dildo
Ecks Dee
Also SPM mentioned, this is now a /spm/ general
This South Atlantic Island in the middle of nowhere belongs to norway
Despite being a cold wasteland, it is not a part of antarctica therefore it is fully recognized as a part of norway
There's some island in the Caribbean where three countries in Europe control land on it, and for added confusion they've all named their respective bits of land the same thing
>>51790517
>Ladysmith
>Chernarus
whoa
>>51796640
Saint Martin you mean. It's divided by France and the Netherlands and it's considered a part of the mainland and not overseas territories so technically France and the Netherlands share a land border in another continent.
>>51796678
What?
Ladysmith is a English name, bunch of places in the commonwealth called it.
Chemainus is a local native word.
![220px-Märket_Island_map.svg[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/xZIp5dt.png "220px-Märket_Island_map.svg[1].png")
>Märket Island
They built the first lighthouse in the wrong territory so they had to change borders.
Hans Island is an island between Northern Canada and GGreenland, and Canada and Denmark have fought over who calls dibs since forever.
“The militaries of both countries periodically visit to remove the other guy’s flag and leave a bottle of Danish schnapps or Canadian whiskey"
>>51797127
this sounds like fun
>>51797127
also its completely uninhabitable, just a fucking rock in the arctic ocean
>>51796479
Also fun fact:
Bouvet island is the most remote island on the Earth. It is uninhabited, and thus the closest human settlement is in Queen Maud Land in Antactica with its research stations. The closest permanent human settlement is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, a small hamlet of about 240 people, in Tristan de Cunha. That, of course, makes the hamlet the most remote and isolated permanent human settlement on the planet.
Is anyone else really fucking fascinated by the most remote places on Earth? Tristan de Cunha, Easter Island, Pitcairn etc
The tip actually belongs to Oman, also enclave.
>>51794118
>Ganja
This man's store.
>>51797127
Cozy
>>51796479
>>51797298
Also fun fact is that on Bouvet Island they discovered a small boat (I think it's on google images) with evidence that those on it had survived and walked inland. Nobody knows where the boat came from or who it belonged to.
>>51798163
spooky
>>51798163
Spoopy
Also, got any source on that? I'd love to read something aboat it
>>51798346
Where in Bulgaria do you live?
What are girls there like?
Do many people in Bulgaria read literature?
>>51798436
Here you go. The first image is of the boat:
http://mikedashhistory.com/2011/02/13/an-abandoned-lifeboat-at-worlds-end/
>>51798462
Yes.
Cyprus in general
Spanish enclave in frogland
>>51798635
Nice, didn't know about this.
>>51798530
Noice
Thanks, this is very interesting
>>51790517
le border face
>>51798869
*blushes*
>>51798599
>having UN administered zones like some third world shithole
>UK cvcking the island with their own military bases
>t*rks
>Gayreeks
holy fug
Quality thread senpai
We've had a long dispute over an area in the Barents Sea. Because of international laws it's considered international waters. However, different rules apply to the continental shelf underneath the seabed apparently. There might be large oil and gas reserves located here.
You can read more about it here:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-11299024
https://www.barentswatch.no/en/Tema/Law-of-the-sea/Sea-borders/The-Loophole-and-the-Banana-Hole/
![slide_2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BX7VwBf.jpg "slide_2[1].jpg")
>>51800972
forgot pic
the area is nicknamed the loophole (smutthullet)
>>51795428
I've seen a couple of documentaries and that's not the only reason. The land is dedicated to the Virgin Mother Mary and in respect to her no other women is allowed on the land. Very interesting history. Hitler had even become the protector of the island after the Patriarch appealed to him in order to save their monasteries and artifacts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos
>>51797505
lol
>>51790517
>Bane
I work right beside there in White Rock. Point Roberts is retarded. Kids have to cross the border into Washington state just to go to school.
>>51792277
Canucks coach John Tortarella refused to live in Vancouver. He lived in Point Roberts and would occasionally miss his own practices cause of the inconvenience. Ended up getting fires the next year.
There used to be two separate islands in the river with the border going between them, however over time they've joined together
>>51808164
The border 100y ago
>>51808416
>>51808164
When the Americans defeated the British during the Battle of Sullivan's Island in 1776, this inlet was over a mile wide. Not the case now.
>>51797298
its also almost constantly under cloud cover and has a temperature of around freezing all year. great place for a villains lair
>>51811389
sounds pretty comfy
>>51791540
A better sentence would be Germany is united for some reason.
>>51793450
>estancia helsingfors
argentina confirmed for nordic
>>51795717
>patagónia pic
>jew loves it
Please s-top i-illuminati
>>51811389
I would like to visit
