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The only land borders longer than the US-Mexico border are: US-Canada, Russia-Kazakhstan, Russia-Mongolia, Mongolia-China, Russia-China, Chile-Argentina, Bolivi
by jcranmer 2y ago
The only land borders longer than the US-Mexico border are: US-Canada, Russia-Kazakhstan, Russia-Mongolia, Mongolia-China, Russia-China, Chile-Argentina, Bolivia-Brazil, India-China, and India-Bangladesh.
Furthermore, the disparity between the US and Mexico in GDP per capita is pretty stark--over a 3x difference, far more than any other pair of countries with such a long land border. The next largest difference is India-China, and that's not a pairing that's conducive to economic migration, unlike the US-Mexico border.
- nathancahill 2y agoAre you looking at single country pairings for the border size? The closest comparison, both in border length and economic gap is EU/non-EU, when you look at the size of the border along the Mediterranean and the Balkans. Another close comparison is South Africa, 4,862 km border (compared to US-Mexico at 3,145 km). Huge economic gap and even larger migration numbers.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoHere's an example I've seen with my own eyes. An onsite oil rig chemical engineer for https://www.slb.com/ https://www.slb.com/ starts at $17k/year in Mexico but $150k in USA for the same job doing one month on, two week off land rig rotations. You make more money in the US working minimum wage than you do in most jobs in Mexico as a high skilled graduate of a good university like https://tec.mx https://tec.mx.
- runjake 2y agoI'm counting long borders as borders between country A and multiple other countries, with a focus on notable security issues[1] related to borders. One timely example might be Ukraine, with the Belarus/Russia border, where Belarus is a proxy for Russia. 1. Contraband, espionage, aggression, anti-proliferation, proxy attacks, etc etc.