Subject: Re: Capitals vs. Borders<br/>
Date: Oct 02, 2001 @ 21:38<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2026338674">Michael:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;yikes & maybe oops<br/>
&gt;i just found paraguay laos brunei togo botswana uzbekistan denmark & <br/>
&gt;central african republic all looking like possible capitals on <br/>
&gt;borders countries<br/>
 </span></blockquote>From personal experience, I think you can strike Uzbekistan and <br/>
Botswana - Tashkent and Gaborone are near, but not on, international <br/>
borders. The others towns I don&#39;t know, but they look good to me, and <br/>
all of them seem to be built on rivers or straits which also happen <br/>
to mark international boundaries, with the *very* interesting <br/>
exception of Lome in Togo, which sits cheerfully and oddly squashed <br/>
against the Ghanaian land border. I happen to have a street map of <br/>
Lome (as one does), and it comes to a sudden halt on the western <br/>
side, as if someone had chopped off a third of the town. (The <br/>
Presidential Palace is a mere km from this border, but it&#39;s down on <br/>
the sea front and if I had to bet I&#39;d give the balcony a sea view <br/>
over the Boulevard de la Republique, rather than having it peer into <br/>
Ghana from the side of the building.)<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; buda & pest come to mind as possibly facing capitals<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Strike them too, I&#39;m afraid. Budapest is completely contained in its <br/>
own capital territory, surrounded in turn (I think) by the province <br/>
of Pest on both sides of the river.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>