World's Most Interesting Borders

Im from Belgium and fun fact: while corona was like the first wave when stores in Belgium had to be closed, stores in the Netherlands could stay open, so you had some stores that couldn’t use the whole store😂 they literally like closed half of the store

You don't need a passport or border checks to go from Spain to Portugal.
Also interesting: that zip line goes through a time zone border too so you can zip line into the past.

Jack: you read “intentional neglect” as “international neglect”. The Czech Republic solved the Tree infestation by letting it spread and run rampant until it died out, whereas Germany managed to stop the spread when it first happened

On the Sweden Norway Bridge border:
During the start of the pandemic Norway closed its borders to Sweden and even when the restrictions were eased you would still have to quarantine. However in April of 2020 a photo went viral in Norway of a pair of 71 year old twin brothers sitting on either side of the border on that exact bridge drinking coffee and having a chat. The twins, Ola and Pontus, are originally from Sweden but Ola has been living in Norway since 1983. They are best friends and couldn't stand not seeing each other so they agreed to meet at this bridge; gamle Svinesundsbroa. Neither twin lived far from the bridge so they would meet on it every Saturday at 11, maintaining 2 meters of distance and with strict orders from the soldiers patrolling the border of not hugging each other.
They brought food and chairs and would sit there and talk for a few hours no matter the weather, on their birthdays they brought presents but were not allowed to exchange them so it was purely symbolic. They kept this up for 18 months until finally Ola could walk across the border to hug his brother Pontus without having to quarantine or get tested. They then drove and got pancakes.
I just think it is a very wholesome story about this bridge and the border and hope whomever took the time to read it thinks so too

The Berlin difference in lights is because West Berlin, being isolated, had to sustain its own electicity, so the lightbulbs are made to waste less.

Imagine the power you would have if you could just change the location of your front door, and it'll change your nationality

In the Netherlands near a place called 'Vaals' we also have those borders. Its called the 'Drielandenpunt'. Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet there. It's a really cool place, you can go for a hike there and stand in all countries at once!

Jack, You're looking at borders now... This is the closest we've come to it... GIVE US JACKSUCKSATHISTORY

Since you're wondering why the sands on the Israel-Egypt border are so different, here's something from NASA that explains it:
"The different colors of the land surface are the result of trampling by humans and their livestock. Trampling disturbs the dark-colored soil crusts on the Egyptian side of the border, allowing lighter-colored dune sand beneath the crusts to be exposed by winds"
Another thing about that border is you can also see exactly where the borders of Gaza are

Half those European country’s are in he EEA/ EU meaning that they have freedom of travel so there is no real need for a hard boarder because people can just walk across anyway

"For some reason" if you're wondering why Baarle is so divided:
Basically it is the result of a number of medieval treaties, agreements, land-swaps and sales between the Lords of Breda and the Dukes of Brabant. The story goes that in 1198, Henry I the Duke of Brabant gave over some marshland (Baarle was all marshland in the 12th century) to Godfried of Schoten, the Lord of Breda. Henry kept the lands that were paying him a rent. The area that Henry kept is now Belgian. The area that he gave to Godfried...is now Dutch. And the rest is history

That first one with the volleyball match was taken in 2007 during the last time they did it. Volleyball was a tradition of the two Nacos from 1979 to 2007. It all ceased in 2007 when the fence between them got taller (understandably so). After that match the two communities held hands to show while they may be divided by a fence, they will forever be ONE Naco

Hi jack I think you should learn all the capital cities of each country. Or the official language or there leader. Love from me to you, Becky, Kai, and your dogs 🐶 I hope you have a great day and keep up the good work

You don't need a passport to cross the border of Spain and Portugal, and most other countries in Europe because they are in Schengen area.

Jack talking about the lack of barriers or border control between EU countries really makes me appreciate the channels name

Jack, thanks for being so inspirational. Because of your videos, I learned all the countries of the world and recently won my school geography bee and have a chance to go to nationals. So, thank you so so much!!

Jack, because you seem so fascinated with borders, you should react to a histomap video like Cottereau's "History of Europe" so you could see how the borders change over time, I think you would enjoy it.
You might have to mute it though because it contains copyrighted music.

There's one where Sweden, Norway and Finland all meet at one point in like a marshland/river and you can walk along the wood path to the tri-point.

There is a hilarious one on a island between Finland and Sweden called "Märket", the border is basically a zigzag pattern because one of the countries built a lighthouse on the other side

3:31 To be honest, I have found as well the opposite situation. The road in Portugal were good but once we cross the border the road was pretty bad, so the conclusion we made is the treatment to roads is not about money and budget but a political issue

2:24 I've always wondered this!😆
Edit: 4:26 you see the snow very often like this (not on a border though). But because one side is facing north and the ither south means one side has more snow than the other...

What's wrong with our country being dark? It's called saving electricity, and more people should be doing it as their part to make a difference
In regards to Haiti, Haiti's environmental problems also has to do with France. When France colonized Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), they destroyed the soil by aggressively harvesting the same crops over and over again. Over the course of fifty years, a quarter of the colony was all coffee with the original forests cleared. They were also forced to export timber as part of paying off 90 million francs as compensation to France. This left a lasting impact

Perhaps you could do a video on ancient geographical borders to see how radically things have changed/remained the same?

There's an interesting border between Belgium and Germany near Roetgen, there is a very thin line running through Germany that's part of Belgium due to a railroad

The Hadrian's Wall one isn't actually a border anymore, it used to separate England and Scotland when the Romans were here but now the border is a bit further north.

4:50 Actually, the USA-Canada border also has a huge chunk of it where the trees have been cleared up, like at 0:27
(Also, the library, yeah lol)

3:35 this is probably the least densely populated area in Egypt so it does not matter comparing it to neighboring countries, this deserted part of Egypt is mainly used for any reason a country with empty desert space they have

Person: What country do you live in?
Person living in the house at 0:49: Uhh...

This remind me of an episode of Phineas and Ferb, where Doofensmirz is on a train exactly on the USA-Canada border, so Perry can only negally attack him on the USA half and there is a Canadian special agent for the Canada half. The seats were read an blue too

I'm going to be honest, I enjoy this channel more than the main channel

I'm honestly impressed by the time and effort you put into these videos, Keep it up!💛

I think it's fine to say that Jack no longer sucks at geography

Happy that JackSucksAtGeography finally hit trending! This is probably one of my favourite channels of yours

5:12 Yea.. high pressure natrum lamps last forever. And its no only that. They have a special fitting, so if one lamp break, is far easier to just replace it with a identical and new one than removing the full housing

The Netherlands and Belgium one is so fun to go to

Did you know that the Austria and Slovenia border changes year by year since the boarder is measured at the peak of the mountain and due to glaciers moving it changes the peaks and the boarder.
Edit: Im preety sure it is Solvania and Austrias border but i am not sure it could be a different country,

2:26 something i never thought I’d hear Jack say

Bringen up Liechtenstein i thought of my time going to Luxembourg. I thought Luxembourg was really really small, but it's 8 times the size of malta which i have been to like15 times! Thats rlly crazy to me!
Have you done a video about country size comparisons yet? That could be interesting...

We call the meeting point of the boarders between Sweden, Finland and Norway Treriksröset, Treriksrøysa or Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykki. It's pretty cool tbh!

Imagine having a house that splits in half just so the border is correct. I can imagine people bragging..
*Yea so I actually cross countries everyday! My house is on the border of Belgium and the Netherlands!!*

Canada's borders with the united states is actually pretty interesting. You can stand on the border and see a line for as far as the eye can see. And the border is as clear as day too as it's just a strip of trees that have been cut down. I remember standing ontop of an mountain once and looking in the horizon and just seeing the border for fucking kilometers.

3:15 so happy that you aren't shaming anyone an in this part not the czechs. If I'm not wrong this was taken in our national park, where it's illegal to cut trees. We let nature take it's course and aldough it didn't really work out, at least we didn't cut the trees down.

0:30
america and canada have the simaler thing for the most of our border. which isnt increadable until you realize that thats the largest border between 2 countries.

I’ve been to the library separating Quebec and Vermont and in the back of it, there is a door that you are not allowed through because it leads to Canada! Very cool!

Sometimes borders are noticeable within countries. I used to drive to Maryland often, and when you cross from West Virginia to Maryland the interstate’s pavement suddenly totally changes. It turns to a red color and is much nicer maintenance. :) Your Spain/Portugal photo reminded me.

05:16 the reason you can still see the difference is because East berlin switched to electric lights before west berlin so when west berlin did eventually switch from candle to electric they chose orange because is was the same colour as the candles.

There's also four corners in the USA that separate Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado

The East German used to have one of those sodium vapour laps where as the West German had fluorescent lamps.
The East German during the Berlin Wall eara was a tad bit poor and sodium vapour were a cheeper option for them. And on the other hand the west Germany realised that fluorescent lamps will cast brighter lights so they used that instead.
And the reason as to why the bulbs (lamps) hasn't been changed is the population per sq km and mostly the preferences.
Hope I cleared your query. I binge watch your content Amazing video . Keep it up! 😇

I was always interested in other countries borders and thanks for making this a video!

I’ve been to the Slovakia/Poland border. It’s a stunning region

i like how he says you should have your passport when ur on the zipline between spain and portugal even though they're part of the EU so you dont need a passport to travel between either country

3:45 Please do! There are so many border triangles in Germany (with its neighboring countries) alone, you'd have a blast!

The zip line from Spain to Portugal is great fun. No passport needed of course, and you also cross a time zone for added benefit. Would happily do it again!

Spain and Portugal are in different timezones, so if you go on the Zip wire from one to the other, is it technically time travel?

Jack you should learn every countries capital city I think that would be really fun

I actually live in Stanstead, we have some pretty interesting border places. Like that library, we also have a house split, and a road split. The houses on that road, one side is on Quebec and the other is in Vermont

The border between Spain and Portugal is really cool because as well as the zipwire, the border is actually just a river. I was in Portugal and my dad and I went over to have lunch in Spain for the day and then zipwired back to Portugal. It was awesome :)

When you were talking about the "fossil box" (1:33) it reminded me of something. i have 5 60 million year old shark teeth in fossilized wood i also have a fragment of chicxulub which was found when the crater itself was found

I also think the Denmark-Germany border is quite hardly controlled because of Denmarks strict immigration policies.

Yes jack, u should 100% visit these borders irl, it would be an amazing video

Jack: How do they figure out which part is Asian and which is European?
Ural:So I don’t exist now?

Genuine question. If you were to move your front door from Belgium to the Netherlands would you need to apply for citizenship? Also if your front door is in Belgium would that mean that you can't work anyways in Netherlands?

You don't need a passport or border checks to go from Spain to Portugal. Also interesting: that zip line goes through a time zone border too so you can zip line into the past.

I once went to Wentworth (just over the border of Victoria Australia) and the border was a one way bridge between Victoria and New South Wales

the hungary, slovakia and austria one is amazing, truly is, and since i live in hungary ill find it and go to slovakia cause ive been to austria once!

Jack your amazing! And I’m not gonna lie I like this channel then the main one so please keep making more geography videos

Hey Jack, it would be cool if you visit a couple of these places and make a video about them.

I love your content Jack keep up the good work

At 02:54 because of COVID two twins met up and celebrated there birthday at the line. One in Norway and the other in Sweden so they didn’t have to go in quarantine

Son: "Mom, I wanna go on holiday in Belgium!"
Mom: "But we have Belgium at home"
Belgium at home:

This is so interesting tbh and jack i really really like your videos and i would wan't to lie across that bench between Slovakia, Austria,and hungary and i love your vids 😍🥰

this was a very funny video, keep up the good work man

1:40 that fossil is oddly similar too the poland ukraine border lol

With my family, we drove from France into Spain over the Pyrenees. At the border, the sign saying France & Espania was spray painted over: Catalunya, both ways.

Imagine waking up in Belgium, eating breakfast in the Netherlands, and then going back to belgium to sleep.

0:17 i been on this border. So cool

jack proceeds to read intentional as international.
also jack : "although I will say, international neglect sounds a bit harsh to the Czech republic when we don't know all the context here

amazing stuff!! if u do another one, you could maybe add in the india and pakistan border crossing ceremony thingy
love ur vids

know whats crazy, before i started healily watching jacks geography vids i was predicted a 2 in geography and now after watching for a while i just passed my geog mock with a 5

Loved the content and length of this video, perfect balance lol :)

Jack's never gonna run out of ideas

something about geography videos are so entertaining

You should have also included the Indo-Bhutan border since in many places even a small garden can become a border

The #8 one, im from Portugal but i didnt knew about that!
Same for #20, my country's roads are alot different than most places

When I went snowboarding in Italy, it was right on the border of the French resort Mont Genevre so you could literally ski into a different country. It was sick

First: I love these crazy borders. Second: That's the first I hear the English pronounciation of Liechtenstein... Very funny for a German... XD

4:13 Fun fact, Hadrians wall was actually built to keep the people from leaving the Roman Empire into Caledonia

the one I find interesting is the 4 corners monument between Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico in the USA

This is my favourite channel of yours Jack.

The border between Belgium the Netherlands and Germany has a nice rotating bench. And a viewing tower

0:49 there is something similar to that between The Republic of and Northern Ireland where it just cuts between houses and across fields

Love your vids Jack :)

You should check the border beetwen Slovenia and Croatia at town called Metlika.
Its similar to Belgium and Netherlands

Hi Jack, I think you should learn am the country’s shapes/outlines! You use a good technique remembering the flags and I reckon you can do the same with outlines, like Italy looks like a boot for example!

Wow I’m glad he showed the Germany Poland and Czech border cause I am moving to the Czech side there pretty soon

Border between The Netherlands and Belgium actually goes through the store of a lady who makes incredible paintings, me and my mom know her really well and shes very sweet + is known by various dutch/belgian stars

Got me thinking. What if two countries where they drive on opposite sides of the road border. How do they switch sides?

I once was at another pretty impressing border, it was between Germany and Switzerland, and it was right on the Rhein (a river) but the cool thing about it was that there was the worlds largest oldest still standing wooden bridge, which had an impressive architecture! And when you go over the bridge there's at the middle a white line on the ground that marks the border, so the half the bridge is in Switzerland and the over half in Germany, I also have a picture of me, standing with one feet in Germany and with the other one in Switzerland

We need a part 2 of this

one border I was expecting but wasn't in the video was the Turkish/Greek border through Nicosia Cyprus