Büsingen am Hochrhein: The Town Torn Between Two Countries
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2020
Büsingen am Hochrhein is a German town with a lot of Swiss character. That’s because this small town on the Rhine is entirely surrounded by ...
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LlÃvia: A Curious Spanish Enclave in France
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2020
A welcome sign on the road to LlÃvia, a landlock state of Spain inside France. Photo: LMspencer/Shutterstock.com Deep in the Pyrenees, s...
Vennbahn: The Railway That Created a Peculiar Border Problem
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2020
Germany and Belgium’s border problem. Photo: gunnsteinlye/Flickr Along the German-Belgian border runs an old disused railway track, the ...
The Great Hedge of India
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2020
Back in the 19th century, eastern India was separated from the west by an impenetrable belt of trees made up of mostly thorny plants such as...
Offa’s Dyke: The 1,200-Years-Old Dyke Separating Wales From England
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2018
In south-west England, there runs a great earthwork from the mouth of River Dee near Chester, to the estuary of River Severn near Chepstow, ...
How Croatia Got The Coastline Away From Bosnia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2018
There is a small joke going around social media circles for the past few weeks involving the strange border between Croatia and Bosnia and H...
The Strange Case of Kijong-dong And Daeseong-dong
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2018
After three years of bloody conflict that saw three million people dead, the two neighboring countries, North and South Korea, entered into ...
How to Get Away With Murder in Yellowstone National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2018
In 2005, a Michigan State law professor published a paper in a law journal where he described a way to commit the perfect crime and get away...
The Library That Stands On Two Countries
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2018
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has two different addresses. If you are American, you’ll say the library is located at “93 Caswell ...
Bir Tawil: The Land No Country Wants
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2018
Wedged between the borders of Egypt and Sudan is a small parcel of land that is truly unique in this world. It is one of the last unclaimed ...
Saatse Boot: A Russia-Estonia Border Anomaly
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2017
In southeast Estonia, in the municipality of Värska Parish, lies a peculiar border irregularity. A small piece of Russian land called the “S...
The Unusual Border of Märket Island
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2015
Märket is a small 3.3-hectare lump of rock located in the passage joining the Gulf of Bothnia to the Baltic Sea, between Sweden and Finland....
Diomede Islands: Two Islands Split by the US-Russian Border and the International Date Line
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2014
The Diomede Islands are a pair of rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia. Though the t...
The Curious Case of Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2012
Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog are two municipalities that divide the town of Baarle on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium. Baa...
Hotel Arbez Franco-Suisse, Located Half in Switzerland and Half in France
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 24, 2012
The Arbez Hotel is a small two star hotel located in the quite border town of La Cure, five miles north of Geneva. A nice, cozy little place...
Triple Frontier: The Tri-Border Between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2012
The Triple Frontier is the tri-border region where the borders of 3 countries meet: Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. While there are many tri...
