facts verse presents rare borders in the
world number one the Spain Morocco
border see Utah is a small autonomous
city in Spain it's located on the east
coast of North Africa and it is
surrounded by Morocco Morocco claims cu2
along with the city of Melilla as a
result Spain built a fence that is close
to ten feet tall and it's topped with
barbed wire number to borrow NASA borrow
Hertog border the borrow NASA is located
in the Netherlands and it shares a
border with bharal Hertog Baro Hertog is
made up of 26 pieces of separated land
and it's surrounded by Baro NASA the
border is so complicated that there are
houses that are half on one side of the
border and half on the other all around
the areas have very strange borders the
border in the photo shows a restaurant
area in the Netherlands side of the
border and nothing on the Belgium side
this area earns its spot as one of the
ten rare borders in the world number
three bir tawil bir tawil is a piece of
land that's about 795 square miles and
it is the only piece of land other than
antarctica that is not claimed by any
nation both the Sudan and Egypt claimed
that this piece of land belongs to them
each place has drawn their own borders
for this area and each different
drawings show that the area belongs to
two different places number four
Mount Everest now that arrest is not
only the highest mountain in the world
it is also the highest border area in
the world the border of Nepal and the
border of China run directly across the
middle of the mountain this includes the
highest peak of the mountain according
to official borders the mountain is part
of both China and Nepal number five the
District of Columbia the District of
Columbia has very strange borders
originally it was in the shape of a
large diamond that was carved out of
Maryland and Virginia later the portion
taken from Virginia was returned to the
state the
the size and shape of the area the
border has strange features to create a
border 100 stones were placed around the
area today other than a few missing
stones the border still exists the
border is unique in other ways as well
if you're walking on a sidewalk on
Eastern Avenue on the north side of the
street you are in Maryland the street
itself is located in the District of
Columbia the store is located on one
side of the street have a Maryland area
code and the stores on the other side
have a District of Columbia area code
number six Derby Line Vermont this is a
very strange border that separates two
different countries the town of Derby
line actually straddles the United
States and the Canada border it passes
right through the town and even through
certain homes and buildings in some
homes the family prepares their meals in
the United States and they eat in Canada
the Haskell free library and Opera House
was intentionally built on the border if
you're performing at the Opera House you
are in Canada if you're watching the
show you are in the United States this
building even has two mailing addresses
one in the United States and one in
Canada number seven the Korean
Demilitarized Zone the Korean DMZ is a
strip of land that's about 160 miles
long it is the area that divides South
Korea and North Korea it's also the most
militarized border in the world because
it is so heavily guarded nobody ever
goes in that area the fact that nobody
ever crosses he created a nature
preserve which is home to many
endangered species this area is not a
formal border because the two nations
are still at war and they haven't been
able to agree upon a technical border a
ceasefire was declared in 1953 but a
peace treaty was never called number
eight tumen river' the Tumen River is
located in northeastern Asia this is a
very strange border because if you start
off walking in North Korea you can walk
about a half mile and have passed
through China and right into Russia
considering the safety issues you
probably don't want to attempt this
though because this has been a
common area for North Koreans to defect
it's now patrolled heavily by North
Korean soldiers number nine the Diomedes
the Diomedes are two islands in the
Bering Strait on little Diomedes is the
American city of Diomedes with a
population of just 146 big Diomede II
belongs to Russia and nobody lives there
the islands are only two and a half
miles apart and they're separated by the
International Dateline which acts as the
border between Russia and the United
States this border is especially rare
because if you're on little die
immediately a.m. on Saturday it would be
6 a.m. on Sunday on big Diomede II you
can actually look into the future if you
have a telescope or a high-powered pair
of binoculars
number 10 Bristol Virginia Bristol
Tennessee both Virginia and Tennessee
have a town called Bristol what makes
these two towns so strange is that
Bristol Virginia is right across the
street from Bristol Tennessee they even
share a downtown district whenever
there's an annual festival downtown both
states pitch in if you want to leave
Virginia and visit Tennessee all you
need to do is cross the street the four
corners monument we're adding it because
it's really interesting this is the only
place in the United States where four
states merge at one point when you visit
the monument you can literally jump from
Utah to Colorado to New Mexico to
Arizona and then back to Utah again
because the borders are so close in this
area there are no telephones electricity
or running water in the area there are
also very few stores and gas stations
within a 30-mile radius of the monument
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