The world's weirdest place names and capital cities
Chapter 1
Capitals with unexpected quirks
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Chapter 2
Tongue twisters and punctuation puzzles
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Chapter 3
Towns named after bizarre things
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Chapter 4
Geographically impossible anomalies
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Master of The world's weirdest place names and capital cities
Ch 4 · Geographically impossible anomalies
Fun Fact
The front door rule: In Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau, a building's official nationality is determined solely by which country its front door opens into.
Glossary
exclave (noun)
A portion of a state or territory geographically separated from the main part by surrounding foreign territory. The Spanish town of Llivia is an exclave completely surrounded by French territory.
A portion of a state or territory geographically separated from the main part by surrounding foreign territory. The Spanish town of Llivia is an exclave completely surrounded by French territory.
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Why does no country claim the desert territory of Bir Tawil between Egypt and Sudan?
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What historical mistake created the Northwest Angle, a piece of Minnesota cut off by Canada?
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Why is Point Roberts, Washington, geographically isolated from the rest of the United States?
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What is the term for a portion of a state's territory completely surrounded by the territory of another state?
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What was unique about the Dahala Khagrabari enclave in the Cooch Behar region before 2015?
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Which two European nations share the incredibly fragmented, patchwork border town of Baarle?