6 Borders That Look Like They Were Drawn By Drunk People

I don’t usually learn much from the posts on Cracked.com, although I sometimes enjoy their take on things. This article is an exception. I learned a lot.

I didn’t know that there was an American town completely within Canada. In order to get from Point Roberts, Washington to any other part of Washington, there are only two options: take a boat, or drive through Canada! One of the coolest things about this situation is that Point Roberts is too small to have its own school system beyond third grade, so the children there have to be bused through Canada and back into the USA twice a day – four border crossings every single weekday.

I didn’t know there was a walled-in Spanish town (Melilla) completely on the continent of Africa.

I know that the Balkan borders are sometimes crazy, but I didn’t know that Croatia is split into two halves separated by a six-mile stretch of Bosnia. This presents so many border-related traffic problems that Croatia is trying to negotiate a plan to build a six mile bridge over the Bosnian territory. (Of course they need Bosnia’s permission to build the chain of supports on Bosnian territory.)

And some of the other examples are also fascinating!

 

4 thoughts on “6 Borders That Look Like They Were Drawn By Drunk People

  1. Barb went to either Greece Apollo or Greece Athena (pretty sure those were the names she mentioned). Hard to remember 45 years removed. Those names really cracked me up at the time.

  2. Scoop:
    That sort of railway gauge thing just might be one of the biggest reasons why the Germans didn’t pull off the big one vs. Stalin in 1941. They could only physically convert Russian gauge to German gauge so fast. Driving distances from the starting line to Leningrad, Moscow, and Rostov were 608,658, and 1100 miles (app, it’s 1050 from Lvov which was east of the line) respectively. The trainlines were probably much the same distance. The Germans had zilch for trucks and no fuel for them if they did. So it was horses which just like the Short Dead Dude’s in 1812 didn’t like the conditions and trains for hauling food, ammo, parts and all that. The crap terrain, the weather, lack of roads, lack of maps, and lack of at least two more infantry armies not to mention the presence of several million pissed-off well-armed Red Army men (and women) didn’t help either. I did my senior thesis on the first 6 months of the R-G War 40+ years ago and won a prize which in cash terms equaled a pizza date and a movie date with my GF (from Greece NY – you might know where that is.) The gauge thing meant that the continuous supply line with running trains might be hundreds of miles behind where the front was at a given time. To make a long…, that gauge thing can actually be pretty helpful against an anticipated invader.

    1. Definitely familiar with Greece, NY – home of the first girl I dated in H.S. She went to Cardinal Mooney, which is now a public school of some sort.

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