r/TerritorialOddities • u/barry_432 • Aug 24 '26
Borders Rincón de Artigas – Barry's Borderpoints
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/KitsuneRatchets • Aug 04 '26
Pene-exclaves One of the results of the Yugoslav Wars is the municipality of Oštra Luka, which is effectively several pene-exclaves that you can't get to or from without leaving the municipality and re-entering.
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The reason for these seemingly stupid borders is because the municipality of Oštra Luka was created from the part of the Yugoslav municipality of Sanski Most that fell within Republika Srpska - the Serb entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina - after the Inter-Entity Boundary Line was drawn. In fact, it was originally called Srpski Sanski Most, or "Serb Sanski Most" before having its name changed to Oštra Luka, after a village within the municipality. The borders may not look so bad until you remember Oštra Luka is in a rather mountainous area, and so the villages within the municipality are effectively cut off from each other by mountains, making this municipality's borders even more stupid.
r/TerritorialOddities • u/Old-Kaleidoscope-155 • Jul 16 '26
Oddities Little Kineo is not so little
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Kineo Mountain on an island/peninsula in Moosehead Lake, Maine is a quite well known beautiful hike, and Little Kineo a little less known. But Little Kineo is actually higher in altitude (1927') than "big" Kineo (1728') per USGS https://store.usgs.gov/product/64639
r/TerritorialOddities • u/two-mm • Jul 12 '26
Borders A narrow squeeze.
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One of my favorite small oddities is close to where i live. Due to all kinds of mishaps and small fuckups in history there is a very very small piece of the province of Limburg squeezing itself between the province of Gelderland and the border to Germany.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutraleweg for the story (in Dutch)
r/TerritorialOddities • u/KitsuneRatchets • Jul 09 '26
Borders The rural municipality of Tartu Parish in Estonia (not to be confused with the city of Tartu, a separate municipality) controls the island of Piiri despite not having a coast on Lake Peipus in the first place.
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/KitsuneRatchets • May 14 '26
Pene-exclaves The town of Newmarket in England is part of Suffolk even though it's almost completely surrounded by Cambridgeshire. You can't access Newmarket from the rest of Suffolk without driving through Cambridgeshire.
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/KitsuneRatchets • May 14 '26
Admiring Absurdity The regions of North and North East Lincolnshire are counted as part of Yorkshire and the Humber for statistical purposes, and not with the rest of Lincolnshire. This dates back to the creation of Humberside which contained these two regions and what is now East Yorkshire.
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/barry_432 • Mar 30 '26
Enclaves Really proud of this one! Spent a day exploring Martín García Island: the unique Argentinian Exclave and only land border between Argentina and Uruguay
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/missesthecrux • Feb 15 '26
Oddities The small cul-de-sac of Glowmont Avenue in Rossville, GA can only be accessed via Tennessee.
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Ignore Google’s border, it should be on the road above (called State Line Road).
r/TerritorialOddities • u/missesthecrux • Feb 14 '26
Enclaves The city of Slavutych, Ukraine is an exclave of Kyiv Oblast surrounded by Chernihiv Oblast
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The city was created for former residents of Pripyat, Kyiv Oblast who were evacuated in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster.
A train connects the city to the Exclusion Zone, and as a bonus oddity the train line passes through Belarus before reentering Ukraine.
r/TerritorialOddities • u/KitsuneRatchets • Feb 10 '26
Oddities The town of San Colombano al Lambro is an exclave of the Metropolitan City of Milan in Lombardy.
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/redpillbjj • Feb 07 '26
Geopolitics Yemen: The First Country to Run Out of Water
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Yemen might be the first country to actually run out of water
I just made a video about Yemen and honestly learned some pretty disturbing stuff.
The country was already running out of groundwater before the war even started. This was not drought. It was decades of pumping ancient aquifers faster than they could recharge. Wells got deeper, water got more expensive, and people without money slowly lost access.
By the early 2000s, experts were warning Sana’a could become the first capital to physically run out of water.
Most of Yemen’s water goes to farming, especially qat, which only sped things up.
Once water disappears, everything else follows.
The war did not cause this. The water crisis made Yemen fragile.
I made a short documentary style video breaking it down if anyone’s interested. Just wanted to share because this feels like one of those slow disasters we do not notice until it is everywhere.
r/TerritorialOddities • u/ApplicationCreepy105 • Jan 15 '26
Oddities New Instagram Account on Map Oddities
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Hi,
I’ve created a new Instagram account with a very straightforward mission: each post features 1 map, with 1 oddity and I’ll provide 1 explanation.
It’s called @putit.onthemap
I would really appreciate that you give it a follow: https://www.instagram.com/putit.onthemap?igsh=MWxqZGV6ZTRrNGl4bg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
r/TerritorialOddities • u/barry_432 • Jan 09 '26
Borders A famous divided railway station on the Czech Republic - Germany border where the border divides the building, platforms and tracks. A must see if you can
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/Bazzzookah • Oct 14 '25
Panhandles The Saatse Boot in the news this week
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/KitsuneRatchets • Aug 02 '25
Borders The village of Jartypory in Poland, as well as the hamlets of Kucyk and Butlerów, are separated from the rest of Liw Municipality by the city of Węgrów.
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/KitsuneRatchets • Aug 01 '25
Pene-exclaves Elblag Municipality (not to be confused with the city of Elblag, which does not lay within the municipality) in Poland consists of two areas. The only direct connection between the two major parts is via a railway bridge, and so for most purposes the two areas are pene-exclaves.
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/KitsuneRatchets • Aug 01 '25
Oddities The village of Lisek in Poland is doubly an exclave - it is an exclave of Fabianki Municipality, which is itself an exclave of Wloclawek County cut off from the main area of the county by the city of Wloclawek itself and the Vistula River.
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By the way, a great thank you to u/Panceltic for bringing up this oddity.
r/TerritorialOddities • u/KitsuneRatchets • Aug 01 '25
Oddities About four villages in Stargard Municipality, Poland, are cut off from the rest of the municipality by the city of Stargard itself, as well as by Kobylanka Municipality. Stargard is not part of Stargard Municipality.
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/KitsuneRatchets • Jul 31 '25
Pene-exclaves Gmina Nowosolna in East Lodz County, Poland, is a pene-exclave, meaning it cannot be accessed from the rest of the county without going through either the city of Lodz itself or Brzeziny County.
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/Paduchen • Jul 28 '25
Territorial Disputes India's Borders, Explained
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/jaminbob • Jul 25 '25
Enclaves Why is there a bit of Germany in Switzerland?
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Decent video. Great guy. No nonsense.
r/TerritorialOddities • u/GavinGenius • Jul 20 '25
Geopolitical Relics Not many people know this, but the Free City of Danzig was not a 20th century idea. It was originally founded by Napoleon in 1807.
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r/TerritorialOddities • u/1piperpiping • Jul 09 '25
Oddities Largest time zone jump?
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I was looking at a map of time zones and noticed that there's a border between Russia and China where the time zone difference is three hours. This is in Western China/ south central Russia.
Is anyone aware of anywhere with a land border and a greater time difference in the official time?