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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:13 AM Mar 2016

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Trivia: France and the Netherlands share a border. Where? (nt)

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Trivia: France and the Netherlands share a border. Where? (nt) (Original Post) Recursion Mar 2016 OP

News to me! Do tell! CurtEastPoint Mar 2016 #1

I'll give the lounge a bit before I spoil it (nt) Recursion Mar 2016 #2

I will give you a hint: Recursion Mar 2016 #3

I'm going to guess one of the Caribbean islands. Coventina Mar 2016 #4

CurtEastPoint got it below. Spot-on narrowing it down, though! (nt) Recursion Mar 2016 #8

Aw shucks! Now that I see the answer, I remember! Coventina Mar 2016 #9

South America, I think.... Wounded Bear Mar 2016 #5

Not looking but I think I know the answer! CurtEastPoint Mar 2016 #6

Oui! Recursion Mar 2016 #7

The Netherlands and Belgium share SEVERAL borders SwissTony Mar 2016 #10

They have first and second level enclaves with one another Recursion Mar 2016 #11

UAE and Oman is also really messy... JCMach1 Mar 2016 #12

CurtEastPoint

(18,604 posts)

1. News to me! Do tell!

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:30 AM

Mar 2016

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

2. I'll give the lounge a bit before I spoil it (nt)

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:31 AM

Mar 2016

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

3. I will give you a hint:

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:33 AM

Mar 2016

It's Metropolitan but not Continental France.

Coventina

(27,025 posts)

4. I'm going to guess one of the Caribbean islands.

Reply to Recursion (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:40 AM

Mar 2016

But I couldn't tell you which one.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

8. CurtEastPoint got it below. Spot-on narrowing it down, though! (nt)

Reply to Coventina (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 11:01 AM

Mar 2016

Coventina

(27,025 posts)

9. Aw shucks! Now that I see the answer, I remember!

Reply to Recursion (Reply #8)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 11:05 AM

Mar 2016

Wounded Bear

(58,572 posts)

5. South America, I think....

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:49 AM

Mar 2016

Surinam is one of them maybe. French "colonies" are often considered almost the same as a domestic province, IIRC. Didn't know if Holland was the same.

Googling now.

On edit: Surname is no longer a Dutch colony. Independence in the '70s. Oops.

CurtEastPoint

(18,604 posts)

6. Not looking but I think I know the answer!

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:57 AM

Mar 2016

St. Martin/Sint Maarten?

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

7. Oui!

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:58 AM

Mar 2016

CEP FTW!

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)

10. The Netherlands and Belgium share SEVERAL borders

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:57 PM

Mar 2016

The obvious one is the one that separates Southern Nederland and Northern Belgium.

But it's a bit more complicated than that.

Any ideas?

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

11. They have first and second level enclaves with one another

Reply to SwissTony (Reply #10)

Thu Mar 3, 2016, 07:28 PM

Mar 2016

Now that India and Bangladesh have finally rationalized their borders it is officially the craziest land border in the world, in many cases literally based on where troops were standing when the Peace of Westphalia was signed.

JCMach1

(27,553 posts)

12. UAE and Oman is also really messy...

Reply to Recursion (Reply #11)

Thu Mar 3, 2016, 09:52 PM

Mar 2016

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