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Baarle-Hertog-Nassau may possibly well be the most remarkable village in the world. The reason: in the village there are at least 30 pieces of Belgium and the Netherlands interwoven. Of the 64 enclaves in the world, almost half of them are located here! Baarle-Hertog-Nassau is not located precisely on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium, with a straight border running down one street. Rather, the border runs criss-cross through roads, gardens and houses.

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two people sitting on a bench in the middle of a park with flags flying from them

History (and sometimes, unfortunately, current events) shows us just how easily international borders can change, but we still like to think that they are permanent fixtures. These photos of different country borders around the world show you how both friendly and hostile nations like to fence off their turf.

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a map with red lines showing the locations of different towns in belgium and belgium on it

Without going into excruciating detail about allegiances to dukes, lords and kings, it is hard to explain the origin if this rather unique set of international borders. Suffice it to say that the land was bought, sold, and loaned through many generations to the point where the current land owners felt allegiance to either the Dutch or Belgian side of the border. When it came time to make the border official as art of the 1843 Treaty of Maastricht, 5732 separate parcels of land had to have…

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a map with the names of cities and towns in england, ireland, scotland, germany

The country, which lies largely in northern Western Europe, borders on the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south and Germany to the east....

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