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2015-08-10 Bangladesh

Say goodbye to the weirdest border dispute in the world

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Posted by Fred 2015-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Where they had been surrounded by a country they didn't have citizenship in for decades
Modeling the plight of the American Indians, or trading Pakistan swampland?

Posted by Skidmark 2015-08-10 00:58|| 2015-08-10 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Wikipedia sez - During the British Raj, the town of Cooch Behar was the seat of the princely state of Koch Bihar, ruled by the Koch dynasty.

Didn't know the Koch's reached that far, didja?

Posted by Bobby 2015-08-10 07:27|| 2015-08-10 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Could have been a whole lot worse.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-08-10 10:47|| 2015-08-10 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 For curious cartographers and others obsessed with geopolitical oddities, however, it's an end of an era.

Ah, poor babies, come check out America's gerrymandered districts for solace.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-10 13:28|| 2015-08-10 13:28|| Front Page Top

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