The World's Strangest Borders Part 3: Enclaves and Exclaves

The world has a lot of strange borders, and in this episode we look at some of the strangest ones yet: enclaves and exclaves.

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[kotzos]

I am from Cyprus and I live in one of those villages sourended by the uk base but you can pass from all of the territory without problems the actual army facilities are tiny compared to the territory, that was totally wrong please like it so he can see

[muscovymapping]

Ok, so an Uzbek territory surrounded by Kyrgyzstan has an ethnicity of 99% Tajik? Stalin must have been really high on vodka when he drew that!

[andrwtp]

You don’t need to use a boat to cross through Cyprus. You’ve always been able to just drive through the UK bases

[jifa]

When you see strange borders, it is very likely that the UK played a role there.

[FrontRowSeatToEarth]

1:58 Actually, the UAE and Oman have free movement.

[exastrisscientia]

After drinking a lot of Vodka, Stalin got the idea: "Comrade generals, I'm gunna piss on this map and where ever the piss lands that's gunna be the new border."

[Jaykman]

"The reason that these exist, in two words, is Joseph Stalin" then proceeds to not explain what Stalin or Russia did to cause such borders.

[samuelmarkby]

Most of these situations can be explain as a group of guys saying “No! That’s our rock”

[Wendoverproductions]

Fun fact: I've used both the first and second stock footage clip in this video in one of my videos

(ok that wasn't that fun)

[roryfriththetraveller]

i think this series has taught me that no matter how diplomatic current countries like to pretend to be, everyone is still petty as hell lol

[dystrophic]

I was so confused at 4:22 because it looked like Uzbekistan and Tajikistan were a peninsula and Kyrgzstan was in the ocean.

[chuwyton]

No mention of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau, the town who can't decide if it's Belgian or Dutch?

[sawbones]

2:15
Oman, that's a lot of border checkpoints.

[AllThingsTrainsbyDrTesla]

In Cyprus you can easily pass through the british area as there there are no border control, there are highways and you can go anywhere in that british area, except the actual military bases in it, which are not that big compared to the size of the total area :)
also there is a funny point of british area that is only a 2-lane road wide and it's the only thing seperating north and south parts, the only place where there isn't a UN buffer zone :)

[DAi]

Baarle-Nassau needs a video, each house along a road will belong to either Belgium/Netherlands and you might commonly cross between the two countries over 20 times within a few minutes just walking along the pavement

[bijn]

*laughs in Belgian/Dutch enclaves and exclaves*

[cup_check_official]

The worlds most important border: Privacy :)

[anghinetti]

Campione d'Italia is an exclave of Italy surrounded by Switzerland. Although less than a kilometre from the rest of Italy, mountain terrain makes it a journey by road of fourteen kilometres to reach the nearest other Italian town. Because the telephone service in Campione d'Italia is operated by Swisscom, people in the rest of Italy making a call to Campione d'Italia must use the Swiss International dialling code, whilst people in Campione d'Italia making a call to the rest of Italy must use the Italian international dialling code.

[whydoievenhavesubs]

Laos: i wanna swim
Vietnam: no u cant

[secondsuccess]

All I see is the work of a really drunk cartographer. I bet they are having a real chuckle right now.