The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover intriguing boundaries, territories and geographical curiosities

The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover intriguing boundaries, territories and geographical curiosities

Zoran Nikolic (Author), Collins Books (Author)

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A beautifully presented gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities.
This beautifully designed book presents unusual borders, enclaves and exclaves, divided or non-existent cities and islands.
Numerous conflicts have left countries divided and often shattered. Remnants of countries can by design or accident be left behind as a legal anomaly in this complex world.
Most people believe that a country’s borders are clearly defined: just lines that separate countries. Everything on one side of the line belongs to one country and everything on the other side belongs to another country. This might be the case most of the time, but there are unusual exceptions to this unwritten rule.
Examples include:
• Campione d’Italia where Italian residents have to travel 15km through Switzerland to reach the nearest available Italian territory
• Tomb of Suleyman Shah which is a tiny Turkish enclave within Syria which was moved closer to Turkey when Lake Assad was created but still stayed in Syria
Product details
Publisher : Collins (3 Oct. 2019)
Language : English
Flexibound : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0008351775
ISBN-13 : 978-0008351779
Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 20,994 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
36 in Social Science Human Geography
43 in Geographical History
Customer reviews: 4.6
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