The World's Strangest Borders Part 1: Panhandles

Borders sometimes look pretty strange on a map. Usually, borders exist where there is a river, a mountain range or some other geographical feature. But other times, borders are complete creations of politics or old history and often times look pretty strange. This video is about five of the strangest looking panhandles found in global borders; a panhandle being a part of a country that juts out away from the rest of the country.

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[weefie]

*Bosnia and Herzegovina* : we want access to the ocean

*Croatia* : _No_

[MetalHeadViking]

Italian guy: literally draws a line on a map.
Belgium & UK: Looks good to me.

[tsuol]

These panhandles actually are helpful in terms of memorising the country's shape and fun indeed

[IAmNobody]

UK and Belgium: Draw a line for us
King of Italy: Ok I drew the line you wanted
UK and Belgium: so much... *H E A R T* was put into this, amazing. We'll use it.

[finnyoungman]

The British Empire is involved in almost all of these

[randymanmaximus]

Then there is the 49th parallel; a perfect line.

[teedub]

The Appendix does serve a purpose. It stores good bacteria so if you lose everything in the colon (diarrhea) the appendix can secrete the good stuff back into your system.

[josiahscarrmusic]

4:12 when I realised he was being sarcastic I couldn't stop laughing. The Italian King was like "yeah.. think Belgium would like that swamp, I'ma have to give it to Belgium, sorry UK..."

[dogegaming]

How the hell is no one talking about Croatia

[frankweienbach]

The story with the italian king drawing the border is funny and sad at the same time

[jaxmatthews]

I love how you included Liechtenstein in the beginning. Kind of sucks how they are often forgotten. ❤️🇱🇮

[kate_cz]

When Yugoslavia still existed, my uncle was on vacation in Istria and tried wind surfing, but because there was a big wind and he was not very experienced, the wind took him to Italy, where was forbidden to travel. Fortunately, he somehow got back, but it's a funny story

[thegamingteen]

What if I told you
Uzbekistan is the only country to have a capital city in its panhandle

[Mark-hruu]

I live in Croatia and Trieste is the closest Italian city. I go there 5-10 times a year and it is one of the most beautiful cityies I have ever been to.

[nkandukataya]

Zambian here. We have so much in common with our brothers in the Pedicle. Colonialism's scars are still evident.

[windowstudios]

“We're going pretty far away to India”
*camera pans left*

[thelobsterperson]

Worth mentioning that the Caprivi strip didn't even give Germany access to the east coast of Africa because Victoria Falls is just up the river and so their boats wouldn't have been able to go past it

[mjmulenga]

As a Zambian, we love to say that our country is shaped like a butterfly. And we do cut across the Congo pedicle on some bus routes. No visa needed.

[augustonembungu]

As a Namibian I'm happy that you put us in your thumbnail& that you mentioned us in your video so thx a lot

[razarz]

3:57 man Zambia has some muscles! Look at him flex!