Of course! This was a question in my quiz to the international boundaries
list, last Christmas that got posted to this list about the same time.
For best information, see Peter Kincaid, "The rule of the road, an
international guide to theory and practise", Greenwood Press, NY, 1986. a
240p book on the history of driving on a particular side, nad a country by
country listing of who changed and when and why, with maps of the world
showing driving sidedness for 1920s and c.1980.
Eg in Canada, it was drive on the right in the 1920s except:
BC interior cjhanged form the left on 15 Jul 1920 and the coast changed on 1
Jan 1922. Newfoundland changed 2 Jan 1947, PEI on 1 May 1924, Nova Scotia on
15 April 1923 and New Bunswick on 1 Dec 1922.
Current boundaries where you have to change are:
AFRICA
Namibia-Angola, Zambia-Angola, Zambia-Zaire,
Tanzania-Zaire, Tan-Rwanda, Tan-Burundi,
Uganda-Rwanda. Uganda-Zaire, Uganda-Sudan,
Kenya-Sudan, Kenya-Ethiopia, Kenya-Somalia.
(Somalia is listed as left hand side in Kincaid, but a recent article and
map in the Australian newspaper (thu 4 Jan 2001, p20) gives it as the right.
Total 12
ASIA
Pakistan-Iran, Pak-Afghan, India-Afghan (if you draw the Indian claim line
up there, but not in actuality), Pak-China, India-China, Nepal-China,
Bhutan-China, India-Burma, Bangladesh-Burma, Thailand-Burma, Thai-Laos,
Thai-Cambodia.
Of these, there are highways fomr Pak to China and Nepal to China, but only
foot traffic, if that, Bhutan-China. There is no India-China road open
either.
Total 11. Choose one only of Ind-Afg and Pak-China. Pak-China has the
Karakorum crossing, so if de facto, if not de jure.
AMERICAS
Guyana-Venezuela, Guy-Brazil, Surinam-Brazil, Surinam-Fr.Guiana.
TOTAL 4
Total 27 borders around the world where one must change sides if driving.
Caveats: many of the borders have no road crossing, or if they do, vehicles
are not allowed, or at least foerigners are not allowed to drive, if they
are allowed to cross at all.
EG Burma-Thailand has a couple of road crossings, but foreigners can't drive
across either. Surinam-Brazil and Guyana-Brazil don't have roads, that you
can drive down, anyway.
There is also the channel tunnel that you drive onto the train on one side
in the UK and off on the other in France, though you don't drive across the
border itself.
North Cyprus appears to remain on the left, like Cyprus, and unlike it's
Turkish sponsor.
The US and UK virgin islands both drive on the left, the only US territory
to do so. American Samoa is on the right, but Western Samoa on the left
(according to Kincaid, and right according to the Moon handbook for the
South Pacific 1993: "If you do hit something, don't stop or you'll be stoned
for sure. If it was something valuable like a pig, drive straight to the
nearest police station and turn yourself in. Heaven help you if you hit a
Samoan. If you park a rental car in a village you risk having it
vandalised". Pacific paradise!
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