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Baarle Nassau-Hertog - The Europe's most complicated boundary in Baarle

Baarle Nassau-Hertog – The Europe’s most complicated boundary in Baarle

  A town whose territory is divided into a patchwork of Belgian and Dutch territories. The Belgian parts of the town are called Baarle-Hertog and the Dutch elements are called Baarle-Nassau. The Belgian part includes 16 exclaves within Dutch territory. The exclaves, in turn, surround seven Dutch areas. Belgian territory also surrounds an eighth Dutch area near Ginhoven. Cafe in Baarle-Nassau,…

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Ijsje halen in Baarle-Nassau

Ijsje halen in Baarle-Nassau

Zondagmiddag 15 mei, zonnetje schijnt en het is prachtig weer. En ineens heb je zin in een ijsje en pakt de fiets om even naar de frietboer te gaan om een ijsje te halen, in Baarle-Nassau. Het is maar een uurtje fietsen, oja en ook nog een uurtjes terug fietsen. (more…)

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An Eye For An Eye Will Only Make The Whole World Blind – Part Nine

An Eye For An Eye Will Only Make The Whole World Blind – Part Nine

Baarle-Hertog

If you want to look at the wackiest border configuration of all time, then you need not go any further than the Belgian town of Baarle-Hertog in the province of Brabant, just north-west of Antwerp. Or is it the Dutch town of Baarle-Nassau? It’s all a bit of a mess.

The Belgian town consists of twenty-four non-contiguous parcels of land, 21 of which are completely surrounded by…

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Europe's strange border anomaly

Europe’s strange border anomaly

The Dutch municipality of Baarle-Nassau is home to more than 20 Belgian enclaves, some of which contain Dutch enclaves.

In a quiet corner of northern Europe there exists a geopolitical anomaly, where many buildings have an international border running right through them. It’s a place where a person might be in the same bed as his or her spouse, but sleep in different countries. A place where…

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This Is the World’s Most Complex Border Situation Welcome to one of the strangest and most complex border situations in the world. These are the intertwined villages of Baarle-Hertog, which is in Belgium and Baarle-Nassau, which is Dutch.