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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-Bangla

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

aasasd 5y ago
Belgium has such a place of its own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog However India-Bangladesh has enclaves of a higher nesting order.
athenot 5y ago
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.
gwright 5y ago
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast
- jacquesm 5y ago
  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).
- lizknope 5y ago
  That was basically East Prussia and they forcibly removed the Germans.
  - blahedo 5y ago
    And the city of Kaliningrad might be more familiar in this crowd under its old (Prussian) name of Königsberg (as in "Bridges of").
mey 5y ago
Little video on that https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aIzkvPwFo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aIzkvPwFo
- simondotau 5y ago
  I don’t even have to click the link to know that it’s that episode of Map Men.
baybal2 5y ago
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.

aasasd 5y ago

Belgium has such a place of its own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog However India-Bangladesh has enclaves of a higher nesting order.

athenot 5y ago

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.

gwright 5y ago

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast

jacquesm 5y ago
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).
lizknope 5y ago
That was basically East Prussia and they forcibly removed the Germans.
- blahedo 5y ago
  And the city of Kaliningrad might be more familiar in this crowd under its old (Prussian) name of Königsberg (as in "Bridges of").

mey 5y ago

Little video on that https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aIzkvPwFo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aIzkvPwFo

simondotau 5y ago
I don’t even have to click the link to know that it’s that episode of Map Men.

baybal2 5y ago

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.