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Trivia: France and the Netherlands share a border. Where? (nt) (Original Post)
Recursion
Mar 2016
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CurtEastPoint
(18,656 posts)1. News to me! Do tell!
Recursion
(56,582 posts)2. I'll give the lounge a bit before I spoil it (nt)
Recursion
(56,582 posts)3. I will give you a hint:
It's Metropolitan but not Continental France.
Coventina
(27,169 posts)4. I'm going to guess one of the Caribbean islands.
But I couldn't tell you which one.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)8. CurtEastPoint got it below. Spot-on narrowing it down, though! (nt)
Coventina
(27,169 posts)9. Aw shucks! Now that I see the answer, I remember!
Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)5. South America, I think....
Surinam is one of them maybe. French "colonies" are often considered almost the same as a domestic province, IIRC. Didn't know if Holland was the same.
Googling now.
On edit: Surname is no longer a Dutch colony. Independence in the '70s. Oops.
CurtEastPoint
(18,656 posts)6. Not looking but I think I know the answer!
St. Martin/Sint Maarten?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)7. Oui!
CEP FTW!
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)10. The Netherlands and Belgium share SEVERAL borders
The obvious one is the one that separates Southern Nederland and Northern Belgium.
But it's a bit more complicated than that.
Any ideas?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)11. They have first and second level enclaves with one another
Now that India and Bangladesh have finally rationalized their borders it is officially the craziest land border in the world, in many cases literally based on where troops were standing when the Peace of Westphalia was signed.
JCMach1
(27,570 posts)12. UAE and Oman is also really messy...