The interesting thing is that KC Missouri was around for a while, and there was a separate city on the Kansas side of the state line. The people in this city on the Kansas side needed to raise some money, so they changed the name of their city to Kansas City and solicited a bond issue, that said "Invest in wonderful Kansas City… " and then in small letters at the bottom “Kansas”.
The city was named Possom Trot prior to this. Pretty clever, eh?
Still… its nice to be able to hop over the state line on Sundays and buy liquor.
–rombuu (born and raised in KCK, but don’t tell anyone…)
Someone on the net had told me the above factoid and I foolishly repeated it without verification. But after checking on the net, I found that it was not true. The two cities have separate city councils and mayors.
BTW, like Kansas City KS, Bluefield VA also changed its name to match that of its neighbor across the border. Originally it was named Graham. Ditto for Bristol VA, which was originally named Goodson.
I have not read every post, but I don’t think anyone has mentioned the eastern shore of VA and MD that can be reached only by water or through DE (at least before the bridge/tunnel). That looks at least as odd as MI’s northern peninsula.
Not only are there pieces of Swizerland inside Germany and maybe vice versa and a piece of Italy inside Swizerland (Campania d’Italia, IIRC), but inside Swizerland, there are Cantons that have enclaves or maybe exclaves, insider other Cantons. I think Fribourg (AKA Freiburg) has a number of enclaves inside Bern and maybe also Neuchatel.
The Cooch Behar area along Bangladesh’s northern border with India has somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 enclaves. It is also home to the world’s only counter-counter enclave (an enclave within an enclave within an enclave).
I played this game this summer when I visited Ontario and went to Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron. Lake Manitou, is inside Manitoulin Island, and is the world’s largest lake within a lake. It has islands too, presumably with at least mud puddles that have dry spots :eek:
106 Indian enclaves in Bangladesh and 92 Bangladeshi enclaves within India according to Rolf Palmberg’s enclave page. However, he also says that there’s disagreement on the number in various references.
Thanks Spiff, I was checking to see if someone had corrected Lake of the North, can’t believe it went uncorrected that long.
Remember that this is Minnesota, which means the lake is frozen all but two weeks a year. We have highways going over the Lake and everything. I think there is even an interstate running across it.
The Northwest Angle is generally attributed to either a surveyors error, or a poor understanding of the origin point of the Mississippi.
Wasn’t there a brief, though not altogether serious attempt by the residents of that part of Minnesota to cede that area to Canada? More of a protest thing, IIRC.
Near Evansville, Indiana is a small piece of Kentucky, now north of the Ohio River. Before horserace betting was legal in Indiana, one could go to Ellis Park and play the ponies without crossing the river. When I was a student at the U. of Evansville, my date and I would drive down into the zone of is-it-really-Kentucky and steam up the windows.
Back in the Cold War, when Berlin was divided into East Berlin and West Berlin … back then, West Berlin had about a dozen exclaves surrounded by East German territory. They were tiny spots, only a city block or so, and some as small as single buildings. How the heck did that ever happen? How did the East Germans agree to it? And how on earth did the outlying West Berliners get from there to West Berlin proper and back again?
As for Cooch Behar and Bangladesh … that’s just surreal.
