Geographic enclaves and exclaves and their boundary relationships. General international boundaries remain directly under Borders.
Test your knowledge with these top questions!
The German town of Büsingen lies entirely inside which country?
Büsingen is a German exclave that uses the Swiss franc, Swiss postal codes, and the Swiss customs union despite being German territory.
What explains Baarle's tangled border of enclaves?
Baarle's halves are separate municipalities, each with its own mayor, so one street can answer to two councils at once.
How is the border marked on Baarle's streets?
The crossings have no guards or passport checks, so the painted marks are often the only sign that a few steps have crossed into another country.
In Baarle, what does crossing one of the doorstep border lines involve?
Because the line sits at doorsteps, residents have long been able to keep drinking past closing time by moving their table across it.
The town of Baarle is split between which two countries?
The border follows medieval property lines rather than natural features, so it winds through streets and around individual buildings.
Which country surrounds the Belgian enclaves of Baarle-Hertog?
The border around Baarle-Hertog is so tangled that it crosses streets and even runs through some buildings.
Which Belgian municipality is made up of enclaves in the Dutch town of Baarle-Nassau?
Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau share one village, so a short walk can cross the national border several times.
How many Belgian enclaves lie within the Netherlands at Baarle?
The Baarle map is nested: some Dutch parcels sit inside Belgian enclaves, creating enclaves within enclaves.
When the border splits a house in Baarle, what determines its national address?
The front-door rule gives a split building one national address, even if its rooms lie on both sides of the border.
Büsingen is a German town completely surrounded by which country?
Büsingen is a German exclave: its land connection to the rest of Germany crosses Swiss territory.