Monday Trivia V

Burt Likko 13 Comments

These nations all have something in common: Brunei, Canada, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, the Gambia, Haiti, the Holy See, Ireland, Lesotho, Monaco, Paupa New Guinea, Portugal, Qatar, San Marino, South Korea, Timor-Leste, and the United Kingdom.

(This is an exhaustive list.)

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    • Once again, too easy. It’s a fine line for how hard to make these things.

  2. Once again, too easy

    Way to burst my bubble. 🙂

      • Kidding, really. If you know enough geography to wonder why San Marino and the Vatican would be different from Andorra, it is pretty easy.

  3. It is true that Canada only shares land borders with the United States, but it shares maritime borders with both Greenland and the French islands of Saint-Pierre & Miquelon.

  4. Just a thought… I am not versed in international law, but are disputed islands considered ‘land borders’? I’m asking because an island is essentially land, and if more than one nation claims it, doesn’t the island itself become a border?

    Maybe I’m splitting hairs.

    • I would not have understood a disputed claim to an island to be a land border, until and unless the claim were resolved by splitting the island down some line. For instance, there’s an emerging speck of an island in the Davis Strait claimed by Denmark and Canada that both nations amusingly send expeditions out to plant flags on from time to time. The two nations could resolve the dispute by splitting it in half if they agreed to; then Canada would have a land border with Denmark. Until then, either Canada or Denmark owns the entire island, so as I see it, there is no border.

  5. The two nations could resolve the dispute by splitting it in half if they agreed to

    But it should be awarded to the one who’d rather renounce it than split it in half.

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