Somebody claimed that The Gambia must be the ‘weirdest shaped’ country, and the internet begged to differ
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Dahala Khagrabari is Indian territory inside Bangladesh which is within India which is within Bangladesh which is within India. Third order enclave. The rarest of enclaves. pic.twitter.com/kdDr12P470
— Aswin Subanthore, Ph.D. (@subanthore) March 19, 2025
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This section of the Irish border is pretty wild pic.twitter.com/n34KpfrR4c
— Paul Taylor (@PaulfrYorkshire) March 18, 2025
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Almost every nation is weirdly shaped as they are all artificial constructs. The only exceptions are nations that are also complete islands like Australia.
— Jeremy Hoad (@jeremyhoad) March 18, 2025
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Actually Chile is an even greater caliber of strangeness pic.twitter.com/bXhjnL6FwJ
— Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz (@matmit2) March 18, 2025
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Ireland, shaped like a teddy bear! pic.twitter.com/wtZKq86vlX
— Jacqueline Murphy (@jacqueline1m) March 18, 2025
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— Brian (@SpeakingBee) March 18, 2025
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Nuclear powers make su h good neighbours pic.twitter.com/At0rRHJg03
— dav0id (@dav0idz) March 19, 2025
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Kurdistan is even more weirdly shaped. It has borders running through the inside of the country instead of around the perimeter. pic.twitter.com/1KJ5vQIK9M
— Xaver O. (@onasixa) March 18, 2025
Commissioned Kingo had an explanation.
Its north and south borders were dictated by the range of a British battleship's main armament, and it's eastern extremity by how far the same battleship could get up the river Gambia.
– The world was different back then. https://t.co/pkh020xc1r
— commissioned Kingo (@Richard19110171) March 18, 2025
Don’t tell Elon Musk about this, or he’ll break out the bendy submarine.
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