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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by 8ytecoder on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:47AM (#27038169)
One of the most complex borders with hundreds of enclaves and people living there with no clear idea on which country they belong to used to be the India-Bangladesh border.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Bangladesh_encla...

Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by aasasd on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:32PM (#27039442)
Belgium has such a place of its own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog

However India-Bangladesh has enclaves of a higher nesting order.

Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by baybal2 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:40PM (#27045133)
Allegedly it's because local rulers were playing carrom, and were betting villages.

Once Britishers came, Bengal was separated from the rest of India along their borders of their territories.

Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by gwright on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:29PM (#27043127)
This is another interesting one. A part of Russia that sits on the Baltic Sea disconnected from Russia proper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by lizknope on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:28PM (#27044140)
That was basically East Prussia and they forcibly removed the Germans.
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by blahedo on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:10PM (#27044913)
And the city of Kaliningrad might be more familiar in this crowd under its old (Prussian) name of Königsberg (as in "Bridges of").
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by jacquesm on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:51PM (#27043854)
One day that will cause a major geopolitical headache. And now every time I move around in that area it causes me a huge detour. Oh, and I ended up accidentally at the Belarussian border one day (note to self: update your satnav).
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by mey on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:27PM (#27043646)
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by simondotau on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:47PM (#27043813)
I don’t even have to click the link to know that it’s that episode of Map Men.
Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by athenot on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:20PM (#27043048)
Wow this is crazy. But at the same time, it could be an interesting solution for other disputed borders around the world. Leaders are often obsessed with drawing a clean line between 2 areas but reality is a lot more messy and nuanced.