Tag: Boundary Cross
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More Oddities from Independent Cities, Part 1
The recent Prince George Exclave article explored Virginia’s unusual laws and how they created an unexpected result geographically. It didn’t end there. I reexamined the borders of each of the states’ independent cities for additional anomalies. The intersection between complicated annexation procedures and disparate city-county interests created some rather dysfunctional situations. All base maps and…
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Cooch Behar Quadripoint Boundary Cross
UPDATE: India and Bangladesh resolved this situation by exchanging territory and removing the exclaves in 2015. A quadripoint occurs when four borders meet at a single point. For example this happens in the United States at the “Four Corners“. There, the states of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado join together. In previous entries I’ve…