Belgium and the Netherlands Swap Land, and Remain Friends

India and Bangladesh have done something similar in 2015 and have remained on good terms. [0]

India received 51 Bangladeshi enclaves (covering 7,110 acres (2,880 ha)) in the Indian mainland, while Bangladesh received 111 Indian enclaves (covering 17,160 acres (6,940 ha)) in the Bangladeshi mainland

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

Now they should fix this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau Although it’s funny

That's harder to fix, because there's actual people living there. Also, I suspect the people living there are used to it, like it this way, and it might even be good for tourism. That's a lot to give up.

There should a 2016 in the title. I remember it being discussed here at the time.

Previous discussion in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13065601

Bit strange I have to read about this on nytimes via hn, it wasn’t even in the 20:00 news in NL?

It's from November 2016.

Hmm cannot remember anything from then either; now it’s a bit late to say I want to reconsider the friendship :-)