Crazy Borders

Why did French President Jacques Chirac chase Israeli police from a church in Jerusalem? 

During the height of the Cold War, a German village with just one fridge had problems... 

An enclave of one country in an enclave of another country, itself within an enclave…

Welcome to the Hotel Arbez, it’s a lovely place straddling the Franco-Swiss border.

Why does a Russian region in the far east have Yiddish as an official language? 

How did a Belgian cycle lane come to exist within Germany?

A tax haven with a major zinc mine, which was also a den of smugglers…

Why are two Royal Marines standing guard on this tiny rock in the North Atlantic covered in bird droppings? 

An Emirati village surrounded by an Omani enclave was mapped out at time when water was more valuable than oil.

A small island in the Rio de la Plata is shared by Argentina and Uruguay. But why does this binational island have two different names?

If a woman gave birth at the top of Mont Blanc, what nationality would the child be?

Paradise islands synonymous with hell? Welcome to the Spratlys archipelago, at the heart of a regional power struggle

This vertical slum was a hotbed of crime, but also full of factories, cheap shops and a strong community.

How can you misplace 80km2 of territory?

A lord and his vassals live peacefully on the island of Sark where cars are not allowed.

A city divided between Belgium and the Netherlands, and scene of a murder? Welcome to Baarle.

Did you know that the last war between France and Spain took place in the 1970s?

Can a state in the EU prohibit women from accessing its territory?

Did you know that people from Cyprus can cross the border into the UK every day?

The former military base Camp Zeist in the Netherlands was once lent to Scotland for the Lockerbie bombing trial