The world is today separated into many countries, including 193 recognized by the UN, the latter, rich in a sometimes hectic history, see unusual, and whose scars are sometimes still seen On the cards.
Wakhan’s corridor
The border was created in 1895 after Pamir’s annexation by the Russians, after which the British asked the Emir Abdur Rahman to extend Afghan territory, on the Wakhan corridor. The border has since remained unchanged.
Border Baerle
Witness to the hectic history of the Benelux, this part of the border between the Netherlands and Belgium is completely erratic. She separates, behind the Dutch border, the village of Baaerle, in two parts: Baerle-Nassau in the Netherlands, and Baerle-ducin Belgium. Unique in the world, this border originated in 1198, when the Duke of Brabant, Henri I attributes land around Baerle to Godefroid II Van Schoten, Lord of Bréda. However, he decides to keep certain plots cultivated for his own account, in order to collect land taxes
Longer French land border
What do you think is the longest land border in France with another country? Against all expectations, it is neither Spain nor Italy and even less Belgium. To tell the truth this border is not even in Europe since it is located in South America, in Guyana more precisely, where France has a border of no less than 730 kilometers with Brazil, against 623 kilometers for the Franco-Spanish border
Pheasants’ island
Speaking of the Franco-Spanish border, do you know the Phese Island? This tiny island of 0.00682 square kilometers is a Franco-Spanish condominium and is administered alternately by France and Spain every 6 months. Unusual, this kind of case is very rare, with only a few other comparable examples, at the border between the two Congos.
The monastic community of Mont Athos
Although it is not an international border and therefore of a state in the literal sense of the term, this community, legally autonomous, is prohibited to the public, unless you have to let pass (the diamonitrion) and is separated from the rest of the country by a 9 -kilometer shift. It is a place of imprisonment and spiritual retirement for the 2000 Orthodox monks who live there.
