grant
wonderful to learn of any street plan in the third world

also there could be a side balcony
so we cant rule it out yet

will you be going back soon

m

>From: "Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Capitals vs. Borders
>Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:38:37 -0000
>
>Michael:
> >yikes & maybe oops
> >i just found paraguay laos brunei togo botswana uzbekistan denmark &
> >central african republic all looking like possible capitals on
> >borders countries
>From personal experience, I think you can strike Uzbekistan and
>Botswana - Tashkent and Gaborone are near, but not on, international
>borders. The others towns I don't know, but they look good to me, and
>all of them seem to be built on rivers or straits which also happen
>to mark international boundaries, with the *very* interesting
>exception of Lome in Togo, which sits cheerfully and oddly squashed
>against the Ghanaian land border. I happen to have a street map of
>Lome (as one does), and it comes to a sudden halt on the western
>side, as if someone had chopped off a third of the town. (The
>Presidential Palace is a mere km from this border, but it's down on
>the sea front and if I had to bet I'd give the balcony a sea view
>over the Boulevard de la Republique, rather than having it peer into
>Ghana from the side of the building.)
>
> > buda & pest come to mind as possibly facing capitals
>Strike them too, I'm afraid. Budapest is completely contained in its
>own capital territory, surrounded in turn (I think) by the province
>of Pest on both sides of the river.
>
>Grant
>

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