Crazy Borders (2022)
Enclaves, loaned territories, disputed areas and microstates: This is the series that looks at places with absurd borders.
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Episodes
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1. Cooch Behar - An Enclave Labyrinth2024-09-19 · 10mAlong the India–Bangladesh border, a once-impossibly complex mosaic of enclaves created a geopolitical puzzle where territories nested inside each other like Russian dolls.
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2. Rockall - The Disputed Atlantic Rock2024-09-19 · 11mA remote rock in the North Atlantic became the subject of competing territorial claims, symbolizing how even uninhabitable land can trigger geopolitical tension.
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3. Neutral Moresnet - A Tiny Shared State2024-09-19 · 11mOnce jointly administered by Prussia and Belgium, this zinc-rich micro-territory existed for over a century in a legal grey zone shaped by economic interests and diplomacy.
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4. Birobidzhan - The Soviet Jewish Experiment2024-09-19 · 11mIn the Russian Far East, a region was once created as a Jewish homeland within the USSR. Today, it remains a rare cultural and historical experiment still visible in architecture a
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5. Steinstücken - Not Quite in West Berlin2024-09-19 · 11mDuring the Cold War, this small West Berlin exclave was physically isolated inside East Germany. Access was so restricted that residents once depended on allied helicopters, highli
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6. Madha & Nahwa - A Double Enclave Puzzle2024-09-19 · 10mBetween Oman and the United Arab Emirates lies a rare enclave-within-an-enclave structure, where borders interlock in one of the world’s most intricate territorial arrangements.
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7. Principality of Arbézie - A Border Made for Stories2024-09-19 · 11mA hotel straddling the Franco-Swiss border became an unlikely diplomatic landmark, blending hospitality, wartime history and self-styled local monarchy in one surreal location.
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8. French National Domain in the Holy Land - Under Protection2024-09-19 · 11mIn Jerusalem, several religious sites are still tied to France through an extraterritorial legal status. The episode explores how historical agreements and diplomacy continue to sh
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9. Vennbahn - A Railway That Drew Borders2024-09-19 · 10mA former Prussian railway line turned Belgian territory carved narrow corridors through Germany, creating multiple enclaves and one of Europe’s strangest modern borders.
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10. Martín García & Timoteo Domínguez - One Island, Two Nations2024-09-19 · 11mAt the confluence of Argentina and Uruguay, shifting river borders turned two connected islands into a symbolic shared space shaped by treaties and geography.
Cast
Olivier MarchonNarrator (voice)
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