01 Juni 2011

10 World's most unique Border

Ceuta area of ​​18.5 square kilometers of autonomous city in Spain and the exclave is located on the north coast of North Africa, surrounded by Morocco. Separated from the Iberian peninsula by the Strait of Gibraltar, Ceuta is situated on the border of the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
Morocco claims Ceuta, together with the Spanish autonomous city of Melilla, and some Mediterranean islands at the border, which has forced Spain to set up a border fence 3 meters high around the city topped with barbed wire.


9. Border Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog

Baarle-Nassau is a city in the Netherlands. This unusual division of the border with the district in Belgium Baarle-Hertog.
Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 separate parts of the region surrounded by Baarle-Nassau, but some parts of Baarle-Hertog region also belong to Baarle-Nassau. Part smallest region of Belgium is only two-thirds (quarter acres).
The border is so complicated that even some of the divided house by him. In the picture above you can see on the left side of Holland and Belgium on the right.

8. Bir Tawil

Bir Tawil is a parcel of land with an area of ​​approximately 795 square miles. Located between Egypt and Sudan. This area is intentionally created in 1902, when Britain pulled the border that is different from that created in 1899. Two different boundary made of two different areas, Bir Tawil and Halaib.
Halaib have a variety of resources, so desirable, but not Bir Tawil. Therefore, the Egyptian border claims in 1899, which provides Halaib to Egypt and the Bir Tawil to Sudan. In contrast, Sudan claimed the border in 1902, which provides Halaib to Sudan and the Bir Tawil to Egypt.
Both Egypt and Sudan confirmed that the Bir Tawil not hers, make Bir Tawil is the only land in the world (excluding Antarctica) are not claimed by any country.

7. Mount Everest

Why Moun Everest are on this list you may ask? Everyone knows, of course, that it is the highest mountain in the world, but what many people do not know is that the border of Nepal and China walked right in the middle of the mountain, including the summit itself, so that not only the highest mountain, but also areas Highest border.

6. District of Columbia

District of Columbia is a large diamond which was originally carved from Maryland and Virginia. Then, of Virginia returned to Virginia, because of the size and location of the border has some unusual features.
When it was originally described, large stones (100 stones in total) located approximately one mile apart along the district to determine the border, ten miles long on each side. Some of the stone is missing today, but most are still there. There is one in Silver Spring, Maryland, which marks the northernmost point of the district.
East Avenue and Avenue west to form the border of the Northeast and Northwest, respectively. If you are walking on the sidewalk on the north side of the road in Maryland, the road itself is in the district, and the street is the border line.
Stores on one side of the road that shows the phone number in the window they will have one area code (for Maryland) on the north side of the road, and a different area code (for District) on the south side.

5. Derby Line, Vermont

Derby City Line across the U.S. and Canadian border. Border pass through the city, even through several buildings and homes.
In some cases, a family cook breakfast in Canada and ate it in the U.S.. Derby Line is also home to the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, which is deliberately built on the border.
Opera stage is in Canada, but the entrance to the opera, and most of the stage seats, located in the United States. Therefore, buildings located on the border, has two addresses post, one for the U.S. and one for Canada.

4. District-Cooch Behar

District-Cooch Behar has somewhat similar to the frontier border Baarle-Nassau / Baarle-Hertog. There are a number of areas under the jurisdiction of Bangladesh, located in India, and vice versa. An additional uniqueness is an area of ​​India Balapara Khagrabari.
As an exclave (enclave is a territory which the geographical boundary lies entirely within the boundaries of other areas.), Surrounded by the territory of Bangladesh.
However, also around other parts of Bangladesh, and the region itself around other parts of India, Dahala Khagrabari, so this area became the only place in the world where an exclave contains the exclave, and also contains another exclave.

3. Korean Demilitarized Zone

Korean DMZ is a plot of land about 160 miles (258 kilomters) in length and 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, dividing North and South Korea. This is the most widely border military personnel in the world.
Since it is very heavily guarded and almost no one ever came in, it has created a sustainable nature. A number of endangered species have been taken and put in there, and there are indications that some of them even increased in the population.
A border between the two Koreas can not be formally agreed upon, because these two countries technically still at war. A ceasefire was agreed in 1953, but there has never been a formal peace treaty.

2. Tumen River

Tumen is a river in northeast Asia. In areas near the coast, on the border between Russia and North Korea, just to the south of Lake Khasan, Tumen out between Russia and North Korea and actually in the Greater China region.
Thus, in this area, you can start in North Korea, and just walking distance to the north is less than half a mile, you will pass through China and ends up in Russia.
Although probably not a good idea. This is a common place for North Korea to try to cross and for that reason, the border is heavily guarded by the army of North Korea.


1. Diomede Island

Diomedes is a pair of islands in the Strait Bering.di Diomede Little Diomede is no city, with a population of 146 American-owned Big Diomede and Russian owned and uninhabited.
Two separate island is only about 2.5 miles. International Date Line passes between Diomedes and serves also as a border between the United States and Russia.
So when residents of Little Diomede looked across the strait on Big Diomede, they not only look at other countries, but they also will see tomorrow. For example, when the 9:00 was on Saturday in Little Diomede, Big Diomede, while in Sunday at 6:00 am
Little Diomede has provided cameras to observe the other side of the island. Visitors can control the camera, looking from side to side and zoom on the island of Big Diomede and Little diomede it made as the only action by the U.S. spy on the Russian legal.
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