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>From: "Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Capitals vs. Borders
>Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 23:02:59 -0000
>
> > Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, is definitely very
> > near the border if not on it.
>Yep, another good one, and again on a river. Liechtenstein, too, has
>a capital just across the river from another country. On the topic of
>small countries, I don't know enough about San Marino - the capital
>must be pretty close to the border, but how are the city limits
>defined? (On that note, I do now wonder about Brunei, since the
>capital seems to be a good few km up the coast from the border,
>although I don't have a good enough map to detect urban sprawl.)
>
>It seems to me that if we exclude Vatican and Monaco as being
>countries that are *all* capital, than almost all our examples
>exhibit the propensity for towns and borders to gather at water
>courses - given enough capital towns and enough borders, eventually
>some of them are going to end up together. The one exception that
>must have an interesting story is Lome in Togo, which seems to have
>no particular reason to be wedged where it is, against a land border.
>(Jerusalem too might shake down in all sorts of interesting ways, of
>course, borderwise and everywise.)
>
>Grant
>

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