00:00Did you know Spain is the country with the strangest borders?
00:03On the map, it looks like Spain has only two land neighbors, France and Portugal.
00:07But in reality, there are many more.
00:09Just the border with France creates a few unusual oddities.
00:12For example, the town of Livia, which lies entirely within French territory,
00:16only two kilometers from the border, but it is Spanish territory.
00:20This phenomenon is called an enclave, and moving further west,
00:24you'll find an even more surprising case, Pheasant Island.
00:26Long ago, Spain and France couldn't agree on how to divide the island
00:30because the border ran right through the middle, so they decided to take turns owning it.
00:34For the first half of the year, the island belongs to Spain,
00:37and for the second half, the border shifts and it becomes French territory.
00:41There is also another neighbor hidden between Spain and France, Andorra.
00:45It's one of the smallest countries in the world,
00:47with a population of about 80,000 and almost half the size of New York City.
00:51But Spain has another hidden neighbor, and it's much larger, the United Kingdom.
00:55Even though Britain lies far to the north,
00:57it holds an overseas territory at the very southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula,
01:02Gibraltar, which for centuries has been a point of dispute between Spain and the UK,
01:06as it controls access to the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar.
01:10The Strait itself divides two continents, Europe and Africa.
01:13But despite this, Spain is the only European country that shares a land border with Africa,
01:18thanks to three Spanish enclaves bordering Morocco, another unexpected neighbor.
01:22Two of them are the cities of Souda and Malila,
01:25and the third is a tiny strip of land that was once an island,
01:28but over time became connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus,
01:32creating the shortest land border in the world, just 85 meters long.
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