This was a real map of a tiny piece of India that was inside of a tiny piece of Bangladesh that was inside of a tiny piece of India that was inside of Bangladesh. I understand that they fixed that recently.
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There is one remaining Bangladeshi enclave in India.
Dahagram–Angarpota is a Bangladeshi enclave in India about 200 m (660 ft) away from the border of Bangladesh. It had a population of 17,000 people in 2014. Dahagram–Angarpota was the largest and is the only remaining Bangladeshi enclave after the 2015 resolution of the India–Bangladesh enclaves issue. The enclave is connected to mainland Bangladesh by the Tin Bigha Corridor, which is situated in Patgram Upazila of Lamonirhat district. It is surrounded by Cooch Behar district of India's W In 1954 ...
Then there’s Baarle.
Baarle-Nassau (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌbaːrlə ˈnɑsʌu] (listen)) is a municipality and town in the southern Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. It had a population of 6,847 in 2019[update]. The town is the site of a complicated borderline between Belgium and the Netherlands, with 22 small exclaves of the Belgian town Baarle-Hertog, some of which contain counter-exclaves of Nassau.
Baarle-Nassau is closely linked, with complicated borders, to the Belgian exclaves of Baarle-Herto...
Baarle-Hertogcode: nld promoted to code: nl (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌbaːrlə ˈɦɛrtɔx]; French: Baerle-Duc, pronounced [baʁl(ə)dyk]) is a Flemish municipality of Belgium, much of which consists of a number of small Belgian enclaves fully surrounded by the Netherlands.
Parts of Baarle-Hertogcode: nld promoted to code: nl are surrounded by the Dutch province of North Brabant, but it is part of the Belgian province of Antwerp. As of 2021[update], it has a population of 2,935. The total area is 7.48 ...
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BakerB
December 7, 2022, 12:51pm
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So China Meville’s The City and the City was non-fiction?
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shmello
December 7, 2022, 6:50pm
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You can skip Wanker’s Corner if you want anything risque. You can throw your peanut shells on the floor, tho.
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gero
December 9, 2022, 12:21am
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For some more enclave-exclave-condominium weirdness, see the Wikipedia article “Territorial Peculiarities in Southwest Germany after 1810 ” (currently in German only). Bordering (to) madness.
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system
December 9, 2022, 2:50pm
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