Name: The World's Strangest Borders Part 3: Enclaves and Exclaves
Uploaded: 2018-12-01T13:50:18.000Z
Duration: 5 min 57 s
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We've already looked at some pretty weird borders

But there are still countless other strange borders that exist in the world.

we're going to talk about a few of those.

To begin with something a little ridiculous,

that's 26 kilometers south of the Turkish border.

that is official Turkish territory surrounded by Syria,

who is the grandfather of a guy named Osman I,

who is the founder of the Ottoman Empire.

his tomb has remained as sovereign Turkish territory.

Despite it, well.. being located inside of Syria.

This has gotten particularly awkward lately,

with the Syrian Civil War raging all around the tomb site.

actually launched a military operation into Syria

to recover the remains of the long dead Suleyman Shah

and rescue the few dozen Turkish soldiers

just 180 meters south of the Turkish border

and that the original burial site is still

Next, we're going to shift over just a little bit

which is part of the United Arab Emirates.

It's home to a small village of about 40 buildings.

The village however is completely surrounded

And this Omani territory is home to about 3,000 people.

and we can also see another exclave of Oman

Emirati citizens living in this territory

have to cross through 2 different border checkpoints

Once when they leave the UAE into Oman and then

once again when they leave Oman back into the UAE

it's possible for somebody in mainland Oman

and then finally arrive back inside Oman.

Switching back and forth between the countries

But even more of complicated of a situation than this

which if you ever take a glance at their flag,

you would think everything looks clean and orderly.

There are actually 4 territorial entities on the island.

The country that almost everybody recognizes

that this not-so-accurate flag belongs to

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the north

that is recognized by only one other country,

Two separate fully sovereign British military bases

And then finally a United Nations buffer zone

that is occupied by the UN peacekeeping forces.

This strange situation has a very complicated history

is that Cyprus became independent in 1960,

but the British were allowed on to some of the

territory that became their current military bases.

but Turkey invaded to stop that from happening.

Captured a bunch of territory and then declared

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