fascinating
so it is evidently not yet possible to say for sure which is the shortest
international boundary in the world
my vote or rather guess would be for some tiny enclave outline barely
visible in baarle
or perhaps it will prove to be a bengal bagel hole
also
not sure if i found the right stuff
but the unnamed omani enclave in uae just northwest of al fujayrah as shown in
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/middle_east_and_asia/Oman_rel9
6.jpg
may perhaps be madha
i dont know
in which case it & nahwa may perhaps fall correspondingly nw of the capital
dot within area number 4 of
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Atlas_middle_east/UAE_division
.jpg
a dreamscape of an exclave map which i am especially happy to have found
again in any case
whatever the outcome
but do these identifications seem right
& also even if right then this second order uae enclave would appear to be
in a class with those in baarle
while the third order enclave in bengal you previously mentioned remains
unparalled
if i am not mistaken
m
btw
if you do see giddy before i do
please also answer message 917 if possible
>
>This is really hard to say, but I actually
>underestimated Gideon. Gideon in his book actually
>mentions there is an enclave within Madha named Nahwa
>and I did not notice it earlier. Very few places seem
>to notice the existence of such an enclave.
>Part of the reason is that I didn't read about the
>enclave at any place besides Gideon until summer and I
>caught a few mistakes and a few ommissions, so I
>actually thought it was a mistake earlier. When I
>looked at it today, I noticed it again and as Brendan
>mentioned it too, it doesn't seem like a mistake now.
>By the way, the smallest boundary between sizable
>countries I found in the book was Turkey-Azerbijan
>besides the complicated Zambia-Botswana area.
>When I was a student at Cornell, I actually find a
>series printed on boundaries, a booklet for individual
>boundaries. It doesn't have all boundaries but a
>sizable ones and in many cases, it gives the position
>of individual boundary markers. What I seemed to
>remember is that it was called "International Boundary
>Studies". Does anybody out there know what the
>correct title is as I want to look for it in the
>libraries near me.
>Arif
>
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