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For people who like complex borders https://www.google.be/maps/place/Baarle-Hertog/ This is a Belgian city enclave within the Netherlands with enclaves of the Netherlands within its borders
It really brings to mind "City and the City". https://www.amazon.com/City-Random-House-Readers-Circle/dp/0...
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There's the exclave Point Roberts, Washington ( http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0408/feature7/ ), which falls ever so slightly south of the 49th parallel.
I once visited Port Roberts just to see the border crossing. I drove in from the Canadian side, parked my car, and walked across the border into the U.S. without being challenged. No one asked for my passport. As far as I could tell, no one even noticed that I had crossed the border. But when I tried to walk back into Canada the Canadians gave me a pretty hard time and almost didn't let me back in. It was an interest…
I heard that kids there go to school in Blaine, which means 4 international border crossings every day!
For people who like complex borders https://www.google.be/maps/place/Baarle-Hertog/ This is a Belgian city enclave within the Netherlands with enclaves of the Netherlands within its borders
From Wikipedia: Some houses in the town of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau are divided between the two countries. At one time, according to Dutch laws restaurants had to close earlier. For some restaurants on the border this simply meant that the customers had to move to a table on the Belgian side.
For people who like complex borders https://www.google.be/maps/place/Baarle-Hertog/ This is a Belgian city enclave within the Netherlands with enclaves of the Netherlands within its borders
Wow. I feel like there should be a CGP Grey video about this. He has one about London vs the City of London and the weird US/Canada border. Someone also tried to tell me Norwood, Ohio is the largest city within a city (an enclave city), but I can't find a source on that anywhere.
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The Netherlands have two islands in the Caribbean that is technically no different than any other "county" of the Netherlands.
which are these? as far as I understood (I lived in Sint Maarten for a couple of years once) the Netherlands Antilles are colonies only, unlike the French islands (Martinique and Guadeloupe mainly, but St Barts and St Martin too) which are overseas departments of France, and also considered part of EU.
In name, they are each other's equal within the kingdom, but there is a 'slight' difference in size.
Also, 3 other islands in the Caribean are part of the Netherlands, the country: Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba (but, if I have to believe Wikipedia, those 3 are not in the euro zone; the US dollar is legal tender in (part of) the country of the Netherlands)
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands)
The French have more overseas areas, and manage to make things complicated, too, with overseas departments, countries, territories, and collectives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_departments_and_terri...)
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Wow. I feel like there should be a CGP Grey video about this. He has one about London vs the City of London and the weird US/Canada border. Someone also tried to tell me Norwood, Ohio is the largest city within a city (an enclave city), but I can't find a source on that anywhere.
Newark is completely surrounded by Fremont (California) and has over 40,000 residents and is over 13 square miles in area, so if it's not the largest, it's at least near the top. If we discount natural borders like the Pacific Ocean, Santa Monica borders only Los Angeles and has twice as many residents.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Los+Angeles,+CA/@34.091182...
For people who like complex borders https://www.google.be/maps/place/Baarle-Hertog/ This is a Belgian city enclave within the Netherlands with enclaves of the Netherlands within its borders
There are many such enclaves between India and Bangladesh. http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/02/enclaves_betwe...
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Our frontiers are sometimes a bit fuzzy to say the last [0] and there is also this place [1] where you can literally be in 3 countries at the same times [0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3378842/Belgium-Neth... [1] https://www.google.be/maps/@50.7543794,6.0212649,17z
The second one is not all that interesting, as any country that borders more than 1 other country would have a point like that ;) Belgium should have 3
Wow, what's going on with the Netherlands
For people who like complex borders https://www.google.be/maps/place/Baarle-Hertog/ This is a Belgian city enclave within the Netherlands with enclaves of the Netherlands within its borders
Wow. I feel like there should be a CGP Grey video about this. He has one about London vs the City of London and the weird US/Canada border. Someone also tried to tell me Norwood, Ohio is the largest city within a city (an enclave city), but I can't find a source on that anywhere.