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It's so easy! (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 58 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Looking up who controlled that peninsula, I found this lovely feature:

The Oman Donut

The UAE controls a lot of that peninsula, but the tip is controlled by Oman. Halfway down the peninsula is a roughly circular region, inland, that is controlled by Oman, but surrounded by territory controlled by UAE. Inside that circular region is an even smaller circular region controlled by UAE. I wonder how that happened.

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  • [–] [S] 64 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Kind of like this:

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    These are called Exclaves and there's way more of them than you might think. I think this isn't the only double Exclaves either. There are so many border fuckery things around the world, even in countries you might not expect, I want to make a YouTube video on them, I'm obsessed with finding them on google maps.

    Take a look at the border of Nederland and België for an extreme example:

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, I knew the border wasn't a straight line, but I didn't realize quite how fractal it was. It's like they interviewed each household and decided on a case-by-case basis who was Belgian and who was Dutch.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    If you look closely it's not even house by house. Much of it is just random fields or parts of fields. Maybe houses stood there decades or centuries earlier when the borders were drawn up, IDK

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