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I recently read about a geographical oddity featured in Ken Jennings' Maphead novel. Baarle-Hertog, a town in BELGIUM that I have never heard of before, is actually a Belgian exclave located inside the Netherlands. In other words, it is a town belonging to Belgium — but is surrounded on all sides by Dutch land! Not only that, Jennings exclaims that the town is broken up into at least 26 separate parcels of land belonging to Belgium, while there are smaller parcels of land belonging to the Netherlands inside and outside those Belgian territories. Homes and businesses are even divided between both countries! The Baarle-Hertog map is from Bing Maps.
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I recently read about a geographical oddity featured in Ken Jennings' Maphead novel. Baarle-Hertog, a town in BELGIUM that I have never heard of before, is actually a Belgian exclave located inside the Netherlands. In other words, it is a town belonging to Belgium — but is surrounded on all sides by Dutch land! Not only that, Jennings exclaims that the town is broken up into at least 26 separate parcels of land belonging to Belgium, while there are smaller parcels of land belonging to the Netherlands inside and outside those Belgian territories. Homes and businesses are even divided between both countries! The Baarle-Hertog map is from Bing Maps.
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