Weird Borders: Middle East

The borders in the middle east are almost as complicated as the politics Twitter:   / vandegraaph   Facebook:   / vandegraaph   Reddit:   / vandegraph   Minds: https://www.minds.com/VanDeGraph Patreon:   / vandegraph   Email List: http://eepurl.com/csi__f The middle east's borders can be quite strange, but perhaps the most complicated are the borders between Oman and the United Arab Emirates, and between Egypt and Sudan. Not only is the border between Oman and the United Arab Emirate complicated, its not even in a single piece! Bizzare! 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 example of a strange phenomena called a second order enclave. 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! The large outer first order enclave that is owned by oman is called Madha, and the interior smaller second order enclave is called Nahwa. Also noteworthy is the Musandam peninsula which is an exclave of Oman which strange because it is detached from the rest of the country. Another weird situation is the Hala'ib triangle, which both egypt and Sudan claim, and Bir Tawil which neither egypt nor sudan claim. This makes Bir Tawil one of the world's only Terra Nullius that is claimed by nobody. Even stranger 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. More Weird Borders Weird Borders: State Borders of the United States of America    • Weird Borders: State Borders of the United...   Weird Borders: Why Countries Have Pieces Detached    • Weird Borders: Why Countries Have Pieces D...   More Middle East Middle East Explained:    • Middle East Explained - The Religions, Lan...   Where is the Middle East?:    • Where is the Middle East?