Subject: Re: shortest international border in the world<br/>
Date: May 20, 2003 @ 13:36<br/>
Author: L. A. Nadybal (&quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-900009193">I think if you check with Brendan, he&#39;ll find Bangladesh enclaves so<br/>
small that the border around them will beat the border around any<br/>
little piece of Baarle that you might find.<br/>
<br/>
There was also the little border around a piece of property in one of<br/>
the CIS states we found (have a map somewhere), and then there&#39;s the<br/>
Gibraltar-Spain border which is so short one can walk it in fifteen<br/>
minutes at most.  <br/>
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LN <br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@o...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; we have already nominated the narrow neck between morocco & <br/>
&gt; spain at penon de velez de la gomera <br/>
&gt; worlds shortest international dry boundary<br/>
&gt; & have even made plans to dig it up & reduce it to the vanishing <br/>
&gt; point at high tide <br/>
&gt; just for the fun of it<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; however the esmo border there presumably already continues <br/>
&gt; out to sea delimiting miles of territorial waters in both directions<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; so the border there is only the landlubbers shortest rather than <br/>
&gt; the actual shortest border in the world<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; the search for the actual shortest tho has led me to baarle<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; happily it appears to be another tossup between 2 candidates<br/>
&gt; both looking in this case like about 220 meters<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; these can be seen in<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith//baarle/baarlemap.html">http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith//baarle/baarlemap.html</a><br/>
&gt; as the irregular pink polygon at upper left near the name loveren<br/>
&gt; & the white quadrilateral 2 scrolls down between k12 & k13<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; so my questions are<br/>
&gt; can anyone give more exact border lengths for these 2 claves<br/>
&gt; or possibly better yet<br/>
&gt; can anyone find a shorter international border anywhere else </span></blockquote></div>