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My favorite is the border between India and Bangladesh:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/India/@26.2070568,89.16078...

You have to zoom in to fully appreciate it. It looks like a fractal.

The India-Bangladesh border is really fascinating. Looks like it was infinitely more complicated before 2015[0] Dahagram[1] appears to be the only major enclave that wasn't exchanged.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Bangladesh_encla...

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/Zgs1wsxqvo12

Heh, I didn't even realize they'd cleaned it up. That border first came to my attention in August 2015 and all those enclaves and meta-enclaves were still there. Apparently I caught them right before they disappeared. It's kind of a shame in a way. Makes the world a little less interesting.

You may find this a funny video covering the complex border situation, and the 2015 change. Especially the sadness over loosing such a fantastic map.

India/Bangladesh - The world's worst border by Jay Foreman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aIzkvPwFo

It is/was mindboggling complicated but also keep in mind the events that produced it (the partition of India) also resulted in millions of deaths and 14 million people being displaced. It’s an incredibly sad story.

Yeah, well, there is that :-(

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