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From: "alexander_6th" <silentcity@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 8:02 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Is this a CHNP border marker?

> I've now read that message.
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> The Chinese-Afghan border does not have a border crossing.

I remember a documentary on the silk route many years ago show a plain
(concrete?) border pillar on the Chinese - Afghan border. The side facing
China has the Chinese characters for China on its face. The surrounding
appears desolate, there being no border checkpoints on either side. I do not
know if you can leave Afghanistan legally from here, but Chinese immigration
formalities are performed at Tashkurgan much further inland.

So we can
> phrase the question this way for another answer:
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> What is the border crossing with the world's largest time difference?
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> I run a monthly trivia night at a cafe in Tokyo so I am constantly
> thinking about putting facts into trivia question form.
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> HH
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