Geopolitical puzzles and bizarre borders
Waterways, fire, and ice
Capitals of curiosity and construction
Islands of isolation and illusion
In what year did the British and French agree on the boundary that defined the narrow shape of The Gambia?
schopenhauer The Caprivi Strip
Wanted the river, / But the waterfall blocked, / Germany's trade got rocked!
schopenhauer Bir Tawil is an 800-square-mile desert plot between Egypt and Sudan that neither country claims.
What valuable resource drives the territorial dispute over the tiny Migingo Island?
On which African lake is the tiny, disputed, and heavily populated Migingo Island located?
Bir Tawil: It is the only habitable place on Earth unclaimed by any sovereign country.
schopenhauer The Gambia is a tiny West African nation almost entirely enclosed by Senegal, tracing a river's path.
Which of the following is one of the only three sovereign nations in the world to be entirely landlocked by a single other country?
A portion of a country's territory that is geographically separated from the main part by foreign territory. Angola's Cabinda province is an exclave separated from the mainland by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
schopenhauer Drag the crowded tin shacks onto the map to discover Migingo's unique island geography.
Which country's oil-rich exclave, Cabinda, is separated from its mainland by the Democratic Republic of the Congo?