Crazy Borders

Why did French President Jacques Chirac chase Israeli police from a church in Jerusalem? Strangely for a secular nation, France owns property in the Holy Lands which the country ealously guards.

An enclave of one country in an enclave of another country, itself within an enclave… This oddity was located on the border between India and Bangladesh in the mad patchwork of enclaves in Cooch Behar. This is a case for Crazy Borders!

Sleep in one country and have lunch in the neighbouring country? This is possible at the Hotel Arbez on the Franco-Swiss border - a self-proclaimed micronation with its own coat of arms.

Why does a Russian region in the far east have Yiddish as an official language? The region of Birobidzhan was the Soviet Union’s plan for a Jewish homeland within the socialist world.

A thin strip of Belgian territory in the German countryside which marks out five German enclaves? How did the Vennbahn, actually a cycle lane, come into being?