Showing posts with label bordering countries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bordering countries. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 03, 2013

The World's 11 Shortest Land Borders

The Kazangulu Ferry crosses the Zambezi River and will take you between the two countries that share the world's
shortest land border. Which technically goes through a river. Creative Commons licensed photo by Mirko Raner.

While I was at it with border trivia, I started wondering which two countries share the shortest land borders. The 40 island nations of the world naturally have no land borders, so they are not even granted permission to this little competition. Overse territories and enclaves have also been left out (sorry, David Hemingway).