# How Many National Borders Have You Walked Across? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 16, 2019, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727 "2019-08-16T08:10:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/21 "2019-08-16T13:19:20Z")
France - Monaco Italy - Vatican City Scotland - England, if that counts ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/22 "2019-08-16T13:44:12Z")
US-Mexico Belize-Guatemala Honduras-Nicaragua Costa Rica-Panama Italy-Vatican City Brooklyn-Queens? Nicaragua-Costa Rica was a river ferry since there was no way to cross by land in the area. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/23 "2019-08-16T13:50:28Z")
US - Mexico Mexico - Guatemala Germany - Poland Poland - Slovakia Hungary - Slovakia Italy - Vatican City ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/24 "2019-08-16T13:54:24Z")
Zero. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/25 "2019-08-16T13:55:16Z")
Just to add to the above, by watercraft crossing into Canada, remembering I also walked across the bridge at Niagara Falls. If we are also including state boarders, I thru hiked the AT, so that’s 14 states, however many back and forth crossings between adjoining states as the trail crosses some boarders so many times that the ATC just splits the mileage between the states to make it easy to calculate. Sometimes the trail is on the boarder with one foot in one state and one in the other. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/26 "2019-08-16T14:19:17Z")
Italy-Vatican ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/27 "2019-08-16T14:45:11Z")
US - Mexico Italy - Vatican City US - Canada Belgium - Netherlands (multiple times just walking down a street!) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/28 "2019-08-16T15:26:22Z")
Rainbow Bridge to Canada; Via Della Conciliazione to the Vatican City. j ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/29 "2019-08-16T15:32:57Z")
US-Mexico (at TJ) Thailand-Laos China-Hong Kong China-Myanmar Zambia-Zimbabwe Maybe Belgium-Luxembourg, it was kind of hard to tell, because I definitely started and ended up in Belgium. South Korea-North Korea, in one of those blue UN huts on the military demarcation line. And yes, I definitely returned to South Korea. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/30 "2019-08-16T15:40:08Z")
US-Mexico in El Paso, both directions. Spain-France, both directions, multiple locations. Spain-Andorra, both directions. It’s real close to Seo d’Urgel, we hadn’t even intended to go “up to the border”. Switzerland-France, Basel-St. Louis, multiple times and several actual points. I used to live and have my office in Basel but do most of my shopping in St. Louis; then I moved to St. Louis. All of this while actually working 4 days/week in Germany, but I didn’t walk there. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/31 "2019-08-16T16:08:00Z")
US - Mexico (shopping trip into Nogales) Belize - Guatemala (walked across bridge while our guide got our passports stamped) Italy - Vatican City (this seems like cheating) ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/32 "2019-08-16T16:11:16Z")
US-Canada in 2 locations. US-Mexico in TJ. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/33 "2019-08-16T16:14:17Z")
> [@Heracles](#): > > The only one I can see in my case is Sint Maarten-France. This. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/34 "2019-08-16T16:16:56Z")
Maybe once between Haiti and DR while hiking through the mountains along/near the border, but I can’t be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/35 "2019-08-16T16:38:10Z")
As far as I recall, it’s zero. The only border I’ve ever crossed is the American-Canadian one. I’ve crossed it numerous times but I think it was always by car. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/36 "2019-08-16T17:22:56Z")
On foot? Only one: Mexico-Guatemala (and back), when visiting the Lagunas de Montebello. Are we going to county embassy land, too? I could add a few more… ---
**Author:** ![Scougs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scougs/32/3158_2.png) [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/37 "2019-08-16T17:31:41Z")
I’ll join in with Italy-Vatican City I’m pretty sure we got off the bus and walked across the border from Chile to Argentina. Pretty sure we stayed on the bus for Argentina to Brazil. How do we count river journeys? I got on a boat in Austria and got off it in Hungary. Or ferries? Got the ferry from Marmaris in Turkey to Rhodes. Definitely walked: Malawi to Zambia (and back again) Peru to Bolivia (and back again) All in all, considering I’ve visited fifty countries, very few walking across borders has happened. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/38 "2019-08-16T17:44:31Z")
Traveling by bus in Africa, you often have to disembark at a border crossing, walk across the line, and then get back on the bus. No idea why. So I have walked: Ghana - Togo Ghana - Burkina Ghana - Cote d’Ivoire ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/39 "2019-08-16T19:23:13Z")
Zambia-Zimbabwe like Ravenman, and probably at the same place; the Victoria Falls Bridge, over the gorge near the Falls. Went there to eat lunch (after dodging a grouchy elephant) and then back to Zambia. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727/40 "2019-08-16T19:42:52Z")
Germany-Austria (Zugspitze) Germanyy-DDR (Berlin) Netherlands-France (Sint Maarten) Netherlannds-Belgium (Baarle-Nassau/Hertog) Netherlands-Germany (Pre-Schengen, had to get off your bike) Czechoslovakia-Germany (got to the border in a truck, away from the border in a different truck, many questions and short walk in between) US-Canada (Niagara) Chile-Argentina (navigation error during hike) France-Monaco [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-borders-have-you-walked-across/838727.md?page=3)