Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 17, 2014

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 9 years ago

    You’re an interesting fellow, Mr. Mondal. How do you even write your address? Do you even have a passport?

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    barefoottech  over 9 years ago

    India and Bangladesh has very interesting borders. A geopolitical curiosity is that there are 92 Bangladeshi exclaves, with a total area of 47.7 km² in Cooch-Behar. Similarly, there are 106 Indian exclaves inside Bangladesh, with a total area of 69.5 km². There is even a couple of enclaves of India which are inside an enclave of Bangladesh that is in India. There are a large number of instances where the border goes straight through a house. Similiar things occur in other parts of the world. Even the US State of Minnesota has a small part inside Canada on the northern west side of Lake Superior.

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    Space_cat  over 9 years ago

    This could get a bit sticky, you walk from the kitchen to the living room with a beer from the fridge.An honest man will do the 35 minutes of import paperworkThe dishonest man will risk being arrested for illegally importing liquor..

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    Blakdanielle  over 9 years ago

    Point Roberts in WashingtonState is a similar example. It is completely surrounded by British Columbia.

    A geopolitical oddity, Point Roberts is a part of the mainland United States but is not physically connected to it, making it a pene-exclave of the U.S.

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    english.ann  over 9 years ago

    Barefoottech,I guess “exclave” is the term for Lesotho and Swaziland, since these two countries are entirely inside the Republic of South Africa; two countries inside a third country.

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