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on Egypt and Sudan, it's not differing interpretations of the 22nd parallel, that's pretty unambiguous. it's a question of which version of the colonial border takes precedence- one following the 22nd parallel, the other diverging from it. different decisions made by the British at different times.
The Tajik and Kyrgyz exclaves inside Uzbekistan are the places on Earth where you need to cross a minimum of 3 international borders to reach the world ocean, as far as I know.
7:50 "angulah" ??? it's pronounced how it's spelled: angola with "go" being stressed. i have never heard anyone else call it "angulah" with "an" being stressed
The Troubles lasted from the 60s to the 90s - that's not most of the 20th century. Also the N54 could be managed the same way Estonian and Finnish roads that pass through Russia...
Ten more weird borders: -Belgium🇧🇪 & Germany🇩🇪 -Chile🇨🇱 & Argentina🇦🇷 -Vatican🇻🇦 & Italy🇮🇹(Vatican's border is very unusual) -Armenia🇦🇲 & Azerbaijan🇦🇿 -Angola🇦🇴 & Congo🇨🇬(why is there a tiny part of Angola not connecting with the rest of the country?) -Brunei🇧🇳 & Malaysia🇲🇾(Brunei's shape is very strange) -Canada🇨🇦 & Greenland🇬🇱(just the fact they even have a border) -Germany🇩🇪 & Switzerland🇨🇭 -Eastern India🇮🇳(that is such a weird shape, especially the border with Bangladesh) -Indonesia🇮🇩 & Papua-Neuguinea🇵🇬
You might want to look at the fact that the Caprivi Strip was at one time believed to create the only international "four corners". Turned out to not be true, but it's incredibly close: less than 500 feel apart.
@OmegamonUI Okay, technically correct. The best kind of correct. But "shortest international border that isn't on a tiny meaningless peninsula that Spain just won't give up for some reason" doesn't have the same ring to it. Honestly, that could be a video too.
Geoff, this was a very interesting video. Thanks for posting. However, may I point out that Angola is ann-GO-luh, rather than ANGLE-uh? Re. the Venezuela/Guyana rift, I'm old enough to remember when the latter was known as British Guiana, and just as the French portion of the coastline, it was ghee-AH-nah. When it gained its independence, the pronunciation changed to guy-AH-nah.
Soviets drew not *along* but ACROSS ethnic lines, as they wanted to each soviet republic have sizable minority inside so no one ethnicity could effectively threaten soviet rule in soviet republics. Read more on it in "Lukyanov Doctrine".
As a German i must admit that Namibians and all other English Speakers can be lucky today that the Caprivi Strip was not bargained a few years Later by Caprivis Succesor as Chancellor Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. That would be challenging to pronounce for every non German
Great video! I am from Croatia and used to traverse that few kilometres of Bosnia many times. Quite a delay it was. Good to have a bridge now. Also don't forget that little piece of Austria's North into Germany where the pass is only 1m wide. Cheers
3:19: That is not correct. Bosnia and Herzegovina *was* part of the Ottoman Empire, it wasn't a buffer state. The Neum territory was disputed between the Republic of Ragusa and the Venetian Republic, and by granting it to the Ottoman Empire in the Treaty of Karlowitz, Ragusa gained a buffer to Venetian Dalmatia. Today, both Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and Dalmatia belong to Croatia, and the Ottoman territory became Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Good observation. Namibia is very very close to the Zimbabwe border -- only 150 meters away. But the borders of the two nations never touch each other!
@@michaelhaywood8262 The CAR is not double-landlocked you can get to the Red Sea or the Atlantic by crossing only one border (Sudan and Cameroon respectively)
And the weird thing going on between Senegal and The Gambia gets even weirder when you consider the fact that U.S. citizens don’t need a visa to travel to Senegal, but are required to have one for The Gambia., which makes traveling from Northern to Southern Senegal and vice versa take longer than it should for U.S. citizens who didn’t apply for a Gambia visa.
Here in Spain, we have Pheasant Island, a river island located in the Bidasoa River between France and Spain, whose administration alternates between the two nations every six months. The island is a condominium the world's smallest under the joint sovereignty of Spain and France for alternating periods of six months, it is officially under the governance of the naval commanders of San Sebastián, Spain (1 February - 31 July) and of Bayonne, France (1 August - 31 January).
The first situation reminded me of China Mieville's novel The City & The City, where two city-states, Besźel and Ul Qoma, have borders that overlap in a profoundly crazy way and it is a crime to "be" in one city and see the other one.
The world's shortest land border is between Spain and Morocco at 85m/~285ft long. This border connects a 19-square-meter rock called Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera to the Moroccan coast.
I have visited Croatia, and to get to Dubrovnik you had to go through Neum, Bosnia. Not much there, but interesting stamp to add to my passport regardless.
Don’t forget the border between Danmark and Canada that ended the bloodyWhiskey-war on Hans island . And the Vennbahn which is another strange border between Belgium and Germany
Take look at a central European "dispute" you wouldn't think of in the first place: Switzerland, Austria and Germany! Those "share access" to Lake Constance, where all three have shores on, while there's NO borderline insea all have agreed upon ever. Of course we get along in everyday's life, but in fact there exist differing opinions about responsibilities and influence spheres of, say, police and customs. Additional complications apply since this would also be a EU/non-EU border.
It would have been great to give a special mention to countries that are enclaves of another country. E.g. Lesotho, Vatican City I believe there are about 10 such countries. Which all have to make some political arrangement with their enclosing country.
Sir, you make great educational and informative and fun videos. As I relaxed learning and even lazily considering the fact that 10 such territorial border issues exist, I couldn't help but consider the old roots, and modern, tragic failure of countries in the Middle East to resolve their conflicts for land, sovereignty, dignity and equal standing in the world. What is God going to say to Israel and Palestinians when He asks, "Don't you both have internet access? Don't you realize you have 10 current examples of 10 models of peaceful co-existence, if not friendly, respectful cooperation to consider and learn from?" It's a tragic joke to realize they have no reasonable excuse to create a way to make peace, with the intelligence, talents, endurance, and determination that has left the 2 peoples surviving until today. The worst part is the unnecessary involvement of large and powerful nations and their respective military and financial influence are going to lead all nations into destruction and judgment, with bad natural consequences for all 200 nations around the world.
**Fact Comment:** Did you know there are several bizarre international borders where geography maps reveal some mind-boggling quirks? For instance, Baarle-Hertog (Belgium) and Baarle-Nassau (Netherlands) feature a border that crisscrosses streets and even buildings, with homes split between two countries! Another oddity is the Diomede Islands, where a mere 4 km stretch separates Russia and the USA, yet they are 21 hours apart due to the International Date Line. Geography maps uncover the world's quirkiest borders, showcasing how history and nature shape our world in unexpected ways! 🌍🗺
i love how you're the only one portraying bosnia as the bad guys "seperating croatia" and making travel difficult. instead of portraying croatia as stealing bosnia's coast 😂
@@fmyoung @fmyoung Spain-France, Switzerland - Austria, Iran - Azerbaijan, South Africa - Mozambique, Armenia - Azerbaijan, Brunei - Malaysia, are just a few examples.
Arid areas are often quite fertile. They just lack water. Mostly an interesting video. The very American pronunciation can be a bit of a turn off though.
Imagine living in a Belgian house and being in the Netherlands as soon as you step outside. Crazy!
I would personally love to live in such house, also, hi!
The Dutch/Belgian was because of a poker game a few centuries ago between 2 nobles and their descendants kept the treaty/contract
🤓☝️
It doesn't matter. Both "countries" have given up their sovereignty to the European Union.
@daerdevvyl4314 They are still sovereign.
I was surprised that the India-Bangladesh border wasn't in this video.
@@urubu715 he can't fit everything into one video
Way too complex to put into a compilation video, that deserves one all to itself! Or he just could not get his head around it LOL.
The india balngladesh border was recently fixed!
Those exclaves do not exist anymore
I know, right
Here in Estonia we have weird border with Russia in Võrumaa and Pskov oblast nearby the Pskov Lake.
This vid has more ads than borders.
Edit: I surrendered. I now have Premium.
use the brave browser mate, thank me later
Oop
You can get UA-cam premium for free, or pay for it and support creators without ads. It's not bank breaking expensive.
Also, bless your soul. You never had to go to channel 3 to play your video games.
That's why adblockers are a thing
@@soundscape26 I had to turn off my ad blocker or it wouldn't let the vids play.
Thanks!
on Egypt and Sudan, it's not differing interpretations of the 22nd parallel, that's pretty unambiguous. it's a question of which version of the colonial border takes precedence- one following the 22nd parallel, the other diverging from it. different decisions made by the British at different times.
The Tajik and Kyrgyz exclaves inside Uzbekistan are the places on Earth where you need to cross a minimum of 3 international borders to reach the world ocean, as far as I know.
I think you should have mentioned about angry Bosnia is about Croatia's new bridge, and why.
probably Geoff had no time to use Wikipedia and ChatGPT writing video script hasn't included, because it's chatgpt. And Geoff is just lazy.
7:50 "angulah"
??? it's pronounced how it's spelled: angola with "go" being stressed. i have never heard anyone else call it "angulah" with "an" being stressed
Wasn't "Angulah" the chancellor of Germany for a hot minute? 🤔😄👍
came here to say the same thing, then recognized its an AI reading a script.
Same with Herzegovin"ya"
Never heard it pronounced that way
Laughed at that too 😂😂😂
The Troubles lasted from the 60s to the 90s - that's not most of the 20th century.
Also the N54 could be managed the same way Estonian and Finnish roads that pass through Russia...
The 178 around Lutepää was reportedly still open in October 2024. What road in Finland did you mean? Couldn't find any on Google.
Ten more weird borders:
-Belgium🇧🇪 & Germany🇩🇪
-Chile🇨🇱 & Argentina🇦🇷
-Vatican🇻🇦 & Italy🇮🇹(Vatican's border is very unusual)
-Armenia🇦🇲 & Azerbaijan🇦🇿
-Angola🇦🇴 & Congo🇨🇬(why is there a tiny part of Angola not connecting with the rest of the country?)
-Brunei🇧🇳 & Malaysia🇲🇾(Brunei's shape is very strange)
-Canada🇨🇦 & Greenland🇬🇱(just the fact they even have a border)
-Germany🇩🇪 & Switzerland🇨🇭
-Eastern India🇮🇳(that is such a weird shape, especially the border with Bangladesh)
-Indonesia🇮🇩 & Papua-Neuguinea🇵🇬
This video is great, a lot of information and interesting.
3:00 Herzegovina, not Herzegoviña
@@MarcHarder false my dad and I lived in Bosnia and everyone said us that they LOVE Herzegoviña and sounds better so you are a lier
@palmerito9784 anecdotal
You might want to look at the fact that the Caprivi Strip was at one time believed to create the only international "four corners". Turned out to not be true, but it's incredibly close: less than 500 feel apart.
And now it's the shortest international border in the world, between Zambia and Botswana.
@@UsaSatsui no the shortest ist between Marokko and spain.
@OmegamonUI Okay, technically correct. The best kind of correct.
But "shortest international border that isn't on a tiny meaningless peninsula that Spain just won't give up for some reason" doesn't have the same ring to it.
Honestly, that could be a video too.
@@OmegamonUI _the shortest ist between Marokko and spain_ How long is that one?
@@BS-vx8dg Peñón de Vélez, a former Spanish island of the coast of Morocco that got connected to the mainland by a sandbar. It's about 80 meters.
I'm such a geography nerd that i knew about 9 of these 10 strange international borders, including most facts mentioned 🙂
A great video! Thanks!😊
Surprised you didn’t bring up India and Bangladesh and their formerly VERY complicated border.
Yeah, key word is formerly.
@@19Szabolcs91 It's still complicated enough. Given the introduction (0:08) I expected Llivia to show up.
Geoff, this was a very interesting video. Thanks for posting. However, may I point out that Angola is ann-GO-luh, rather than ANGLE-uh?
Re. the Venezuela/Guyana rift, I'm old enough to remember when the latter was known as British Guiana, and just as the French portion of the coastline, it was ghee-AH-nah. When it gained its independence, the pronunciation changed to guy-AH-nah.
Phew, I'm glad he didn't talk about the US-Canada issue and warn them about the invasion.
Operation: Leaf Blower. I've already said too much
This was cool keep it up man love ur video's so much this was so so neat.
Repeated mispronounciation of Herzegovina (not "-vinia") and Angola.
I noticed that aswell.... I'm beginning to get the inclination, to start pronouncing the US and USA as Ooz and Ooza to americans...
@@Fraternizing_Cog thats because america is a cultural melting pot theres dozens of languages spoken in america its hard to stick to one language rule
He also wrote Herzogovina in the title card. Not his favourite word it seems. 😄
You mean Angolia of course. Jk
@@Fraternizing_Cog go right ahead chief, we don't really care lol
Absolute masterpiece has been uploaded 🔥
Soviets drew not *along* but ACROSS ethnic lines, as they wanted to each soviet republic have sizable minority inside so no one ethnicity could effectively threaten soviet rule in soviet republics. Read more on it in "Lukyanov Doctrine".
I’m surprised he didn’t mention Kaliningrad.
the panhandle is for the river they thought they could use but turned out they couldnt, i remember from your african geography video
As a German i must admit that Namibians and all other English Speakers can be lucky today that the Caprivi Strip was not bargained a few years Later by Caprivis Succesor as Chancellor Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. That would be challenging to pronounce for every non German
Ironically, that's why "Nazi" is said more often than "National Socialist"
interessant. welche grenze man noch hhätte nehmen können hier ist die Vennbahn. die gehört zu belgien und durchstrift deutschlaand.
@@Cjnw - it had ended up being called the "Hohen shilling strip" after some years
Fascinating bits of history!
You forgot about Lesotho and South Africa
Great video! I am from Croatia and used to traverse that few kilometres of Bosnia many times. Quite a delay it was. Good to have a bridge now. Also don't forget that little piece of Austria's North into Germany where the pass is only 1m wide.
Cheers
Australia is the largest country with no international land borders
Great vid. You missed an absolute belter: the German enclave of Busingen am Hochrhein in Switzerland, next to the Swiss town of Schaffhausen...
Disappointed not to see Llivia, Spain
Human kind has the uncanny ability of complicating absolutely everything! 🤯
Make Humanity Canny Again!!!!
3:19: That is not correct. Bosnia and Herzegovina *was* part of the Ottoman Empire, it wasn't a buffer state.
The Neum territory was disputed between the Republic of Ragusa and the Venetian Republic, and by granting it to the Ottoman Empire in the Treaty of Karlowitz, Ragusa gained a buffer to Venetian Dalmatia. Today, both Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and Dalmatia belong to Croatia, and the Ottoman territory became Bosnia and Herzegovina.
7:52. There's no border between Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Good observation. Namibia is very very close to the Zimbabwe border -- only 150 meters away. But the borders of the two nations never touch each other!
@@wdm5552 I took a ferry, crossing that 150 meter border from Zambia to Botswana. There is a brand new bridge there now.
Interesting, thanks for the video.
"situations where residents have different nationalities depending on which room they're in"
that's not how nationalities work.
Lots of trips to Belize on The Price Is Right should settle the existential matter …
Belize Exits!
Prove it
@@Mrmidknight-yx9pg Keep dreaming and prove it doesn't.
@@Mrmidknight-yx9pg Wake up and prove it doesn't.
This was great!!! Thanks. I know you need ads, but a lighter touch would be nice.
omgggg i cant wait for next weeeeeeek
Parts of the border around the top of Maine are insane. Like someone plonked down monuments randomly and then connected them with straight lines.
'Noym' corridor an 'Pelyesak' bridge :)) and 'Herzegovinia'.
Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are the only two double-landlocked countries which means you need to cross two int'l borders to reach open coastlines
Central African Republic
@@michaelhaywood8262 The CAR is not double-landlocked you can get to the Red Sea or the Atlantic by crossing only one border (Sudan and Cameroon respectively)
And the weird thing going on between Senegal and The Gambia gets even weirder when you consider the fact that U.S. citizens don’t need a visa to travel to Senegal, but are required to have one for The Gambia., which makes traveling from Northern to Southern Senegal and vice versa take longer than it should for U.S. citizens who didn’t apply for a Gambia visa.
Border between Nunavut and NorthWest Territories (Victoria Island, Canada)
India and Bangladesh had very complicated enclaves and exclaves for years.
They did indeed
Icl how many times I have seen the same type of topic of this video, ig is a reoccuring thing to upload about weird borders
Borders are neat
People like borders
last time I was this early, there were no borders
Normie
Here in Spain, we have Pheasant Island, a river island located in the Bidasoa River between France and Spain, whose administration alternates between the two nations every six months.
The island is a condominium the world's smallest under the joint sovereignty of Spain and France for alternating periods of six months, it is officially under the governance of the naval commanders of San Sebastián, Spain (1 February - 31 July) and of Bayonne, France (1 August - 31 January).
Very interesting!
3:42 it’s the Pelješac Bridge, not the Peljesak Bridge
The first situation reminded me of China Mieville's novel The City & The City, where two city-states, Besźel and Ul Qoma, have borders that overlap in a profoundly crazy way and it is a crime to "be" in one city and see the other one.
Could you do a video about the population disparities amongst the Hawaiian islands and how it became that way?
One of the weirdest borders in the US is that Midway Island is not part of the State of Hawai'i!
7:20 Confederation of Senegambia was tried and failed.
This reminds me of a former province in the present-day DRC Katanga which was a breakaway state between 1960 and '63
There used to be Level 3 Enclaves in India-Bangladesh border. I have seen a few as a kid. Now they have been resolved.
No uploads on borders or border disputes is possible without the 3 words: ‘British colonial rule’ 😂😂
Engola?
The world's shortest land border is between Spain and Morocco at 85m/~285ft long. This border connects a 19-square-meter rock called Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera to the Moroccan coast.
Try Croatia and Slovenia.
You find where exactly.
1:00 maybe I'm wrong but the Netherlands and Belgium labels are probably swapped
There are so many potential conflicts for territory
I have visited Croatia, and to get to Dubrovnik you had to go through Neum, Bosnia. Not much there, but interesting stamp to add to my passport regardless.
00:58 bruh he really just mixed up belgium and netherlands?
Dude never makes a video without mispronouncing something. Probably a ploy to get us to comment on it.
Song @12:33?
Add Lesotho which is surrounded by South Afica in all its borders
You really should have added dieveniskes loop between Lithuania and Belarus
Why are all your videos downloading in spanish when all others are in english???
Don’t forget the border between Danmark and Canada that ended the bloodyWhiskey-war on Hans island .
And the Vennbahn which is another strange border between Belgium and Germany
8:05 The island called Helgoland not Heligoland.
Take look at a central European "dispute" you wouldn't think of in the first place: Switzerland, Austria and Germany! Those "share access" to Lake Constance, where all three have shores on, while there's NO borderline insea all have agreed upon ever. Of course we get along in everyday's life, but in fact there exist differing opinions about responsibilities and influence spheres of, say, police and customs. Additional complications apply since this would also be a EU/non-EU border.
Pheasant Island, France/Spain is also very interesting...
It would have been great to give a special mention to countries that are enclaves of another country. E.g. Lesotho, Vatican City
I believe there are about 10 such countries. Which all have to make some political arrangement with their enclosing country.
Sir, you make great educational and informative and fun videos.
As I relaxed learning and even lazily considering the fact that 10 such territorial border issues exist, I couldn't help but consider the old roots, and modern, tragic failure of countries in the Middle East to resolve their conflicts for land, sovereignty, dignity and equal standing in the world.
What is God going to say to Israel and Palestinians when He asks, "Don't you both have internet access? Don't you realize you have 10 current examples of 10 models of peaceful co-existence, if not friendly, respectful cooperation to consider and learn from?"
It's a tragic joke to realize they have no reasonable excuse to create a way to make peace, with the intelligence, talents, endurance, and determination that has left the 2 peoples surviving until today. The worst part is the unnecessary involvement of large and powerful nations and their respective military and financial influence are going to lead all nations into destruction and judgment, with bad natural consequences for all 200 nations around the world.
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What about Swaziland and Lesotho both is encircled by Sout Africa.
The Vennbahn on the German-Belgian border also belongs in here.
How do you choose the language? I'd like to listen to this in English.
Click the cogwheel button and change the audio track definition
@soundscape26 Thanx
Isn't this a rerun? Or does every geographer have the same video?
Lesotho not being on the list feels wrong😅
And what about Cyprus, especially Nicosia
Geography By Geoff if u still do the 60 second city can u do a 60 second city video about Kalamazoo MI,
**Fact Comment:** Did you know there are several bizarre international borders where geography maps reveal some mind-boggling quirks? For instance, Baarle-Hertog (Belgium) and Baarle-Nassau (Netherlands) feature a border that crisscrosses streets and even buildings, with homes split between two countries! Another oddity is the Diomede Islands, where a mere 4 km stretch separates Russia and the USA, yet they are 21 hours apart due to the International Date Line. Geography maps uncover the world's quirkiest borders, showcasing how history and nature shape our world in unexpected ways! 🌍🗺
Can you comment on the South Africa and Lesotho border next time?
Let's try for one time to persuade Americans pronounce something right. Herzegovina and not HerzegovinIa
as a US geography nerd, i think i can do it
Sometimes people just don’t know how to say things, no need to go “grr 😡😡 stupid Americans 😡😡😡” about it.
The hurt and the losses that the European Colonialism has caused is irreparable!
Greetings from Venezuela 🇻🇪
And what about the island which is French six month a year and Spanish the other six months?
Make a video on India Pakistan Afghanistan & China border dispute which the British left behind as revenge on Indians for kicking British out in 1947.
Bratislava is the only capital that borders two foreign countries, Austria and Hungary.
i love how you're the only one portraying bosnia as the bad guys "seperating croatia" and making travel difficult. instead of portraying croatia as stealing bosnia's coast 😂
Please tell me on a map where the Netherlands is south of Belgium??? 😂
US/Canada [Alaska Panhandle]
No ads on tablet.
1st example is just Max Verstappen's life story.
Britain has a lot to answer for!
Brazil borders every single country in South America except Ecuador and Chile
The China-Russia border is the only one in two sections, the eastern one is 4,209.3km long and the western one is 99.2km long.
Lots of international borders are in two or more sections.
@@greghall4836 But not involving the same two countries
@@fmyoung @fmyoung Spain-France, Switzerland - Austria, Iran - Azerbaijan, South Africa - Mozambique, Armenia - Azerbaijan, Brunei - Malaysia, are just a few examples.
Arid areas are often quite fertile. They just lack water.
Mostly an interesting video. The very American pronunciation can be a bit of a turn off though.
Papua New Guinea is Oceania's only country with a land border