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Border Oddities & Exclaves
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Alburgh, Vermont
A Vermont town joined by land only to Canada
Carter Lake, Iowa
An Iowa city on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River
Hyder, Alaska
An Alaska town that lives on Canadian time
Kentucky Bend
A piece of Kentucky you cannot reach from Kentucky
Little Diomede Island
Two and a half miles from Russia, and a day behind it
Point Roberts
A Washington town reachable by land only through Canada
The Delaware Wedge
A sliver of land claimed by three states until 1921
The Northwest Angle
The only part of the lower 48 north of the 49th parallel
The Twelve-Mile Circle
The curved border that shapes the top of Delaware
Yellowstone’s Zone of Death
A 50-square-mile legal loophole in Idaho