Tuesday 30 August 2016

The World's Strangest Borders

Borders sometimes look pretty strange on a map. Usually, borders exist where there is a river, a mountain range or some other geographical feature. But other times, borders are complete creations of politics or old history and often times look pretty strange.

This video is about five of the strangest looking panhandles found in global borders; a panhandle being a part of a country that juts out away from the rest of the country.



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1 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

How about Port Roberts, Washington State about 20 miles south of Vancouver British Columbia.
It's a 5 square mile patch of the United States trapped on the end of a Canadian Peninsula.