Subject: shortest international border in the world<br/>
Date: May 20, 2003 @ 11:54<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1092121137">we have already nominated the narrow neck between morocco & <br/>
spain at penon de velez de la gomera <br/>
worlds shortest international dry boundary<br/>
& have even made plans to dig it up & reduce it to the vanishing <br/>
point at high tide <br/>
just for the fun of it<br/>
<br/>
however the esmo border there presumably already continues <br/>
out to sea delimiting miles of territorial waters in both directions<br/>
<br/>
so the border there is only the landlubbers shortest rather than <br/>
the actual shortest border in the world<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
the search for the actual shortest tho has led me to baarle<br/>
<br/>
happily it appears to be another tossup between 2 candidates<br/>
both looking in this case like about 220 meters<br/>
<br/>
these can be seen in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith//baarle/baarlemap.html">http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith//baarle/baarlemap.html</a><br/>
as the irregular pink polygon at upper left near the name loveren<br/>
& the white quadrilateral 2 scrolls down between k12 & k13<br/>
<br/>
so my questions are<br/>
can anyone give more exact border lengths for these 2 claves<br/>
or possibly better yet<br/>
can anyone find a shorter international border anywhere else</div>