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  • When it comes to neighbors, most countries have several options: like North to Canada

  • or South to Mexico.

  • But there are countries that don't have this freedom of choice, not because they're islands

  • but because they're trapped in another country. For example: tiny Vatican City, which fits

  • inside of not just Italy, but also just Rome.

  • How Vatican City got surrounded is complicated, but not unique for there is also the Republic

  • of San Marino, home to 30,000 citizens which Italy also completely surrounds. Italy, apparently,

  • is a country that likes countries in its country.

  • But trapping nations is not just Italy's thing for there's also Lesotho, in South Africa

  • which is both the largest encircled country at 70 times Vatican City's size and the most

  • populated with over 2,000,000 citizens.

  • The thing that makes these three countries' borders bizarre is that any path in or out

  • must go through the one and only neighbor they have.

  • But now take a look at The Gambia, which excluding that tiny ocean border, is as surrounded as

  • any nation can get.

  • If we amend the previous rule to every land route, now we've made a category of single-neighbored

  • nations. Which includes all four of these and countries like Portugal, where the only

  • way in or out is through Spain. Who else is on this list?

  • Well, there's Monaco which must go through France, Qatar through Saudi Arabia Denmark

  • through Germany, South Korea through North Korea (though South Korea might as well be

  • an island nation for most practical travel purposes)

  • East Timor and Papua New Guinea both through Indonesia, Brunei through Malaysia

  • And there are two sets of twins: there is The Dominican Republic whose only neighbor

  • is Haiti and Haiti, whose only neighbor is The Dominican Republic.

  • And the second set is: Ireland through the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom through

  • Ireland.

  • A side note here:

  • While there are tons of 'British' places around the world, some of which border other nations

  • -- these are not part of the United Kingdom. It's complicated.

  • Though if you wanted to, you could argue that the United Kingdom technically dug a land

  • border under the channel to the continent, presumably to be closer to France, her best

  • friend ever.

  • Finally, there's one more country in this category: Canada: the largest single-neighbored,

  • nation in the world.

When it comes to neighbors, most countries have several options: like North to Canada

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國家中的國家。奇異邊界第一部分 (Countries inside Countries: Bizarre Borders Part 1)

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