The borders in the middle east are almost as complicated as the politics <br /> <br />Twitter: https://twitter.com/vandegraaph <br />Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vandegraaph <br />Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VanDeGraph/ <br />Minds: https://www.minds.com/VanDeGraph <br />Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vandegraph <br />Email List: http://eepurl.com/csi__f <br /> <br />The middle east's borders can be quite complicated, but perhaps the strangest are the borders between Oman and the United Arab Emirates, and between Egypt and Sudan. <br /> <br />Not only is the border between Oman and the United Arab Emirate complicated, its not even in a single piece! There is a piece of the united arab emirate inside a piece of oman that is itself inside the united arab emirates, making it one of the world's only second order enclaves. <br /> <br />An enclave is when a part of a country is completely surrounded by another country, and with Oman and the United Arab Emirates there is an enclave which was another enclave inside it! <br /> <br />The large outer first order enclave that is owned by oman is called Madha, and the interior smaller second order enclave is called Nahwa. <br /> <br />Also noteworthy is the Musandam peninsula which is an exclave of Oman which is detached from the rest of the country. <br /> <br />Another weird situation is the Hala'ib triangle, which both egypt and Sudan claim, and Bir Tawil which neither egypt nor sudan claim. <br /> <br />This makes Bir Tawil one of the world's only Terra Nullius that is claimed by nobody. <br /> <br />Even stanger is how that situation came about, because at that time Sudan was owned by both Egypt and the British at the same time, all while Egypt was technically a part of the Ottoman Empire, but practically a part of the British Empire. <br /> <br /> <br />More Weird Borders <br /> <br />Weird Borders: State Borders of the United States of America <br />https://youtu.be/lXTEepNheVI <br /> <br />Weird Borders: Why Countries Have Pieces Detached <br />https://youtu.be/elybAzSVSHc <br /> <br />More Middle East <br /> <br />Middle East Explained: https://youtu.be/0ZvYJmzvgLo <br /> <br />Where is the Middle East?: https://youtu.be/elSzWGAQS_0
