Comments on: The age of borders: when were the world’s current borders first defined

By: Suggestion

Suggestion — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:03:28 +0000

I feel like this should be the first module in high school geography that students are taught. As a Canadian (HS 1999-2003 – no, I didn’t fail; we had grade 13), I know we were never educated on border formation – certainly not in the way it’s presented here. I really find the time period and share of border formation interesting.

One formating suggestion on the map (which is also a great resource!), maybe make the middle two reds and blues more distinct. It’s difficult to tell them apart when looking at the map as opposed to viewing the legend with the lines side-by-side.

Glad I found this site! And hope that I can find this map for sale somewhere…

By: Chaplin

Chaplin — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 22:14:27 +0000

Many lines but what about Aquitanie? I think that Duchy did belong to the English King for no less than 300 years….

By: mathyeti

mathyeti — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:09:15 +0000

I like the projection used for this map. Many others don’t show areas properly – see Where the world wants to go on holiday.

By: Alex E

Alex E — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 07:35:33 +0000

I was surprised not to see one of my favorite borders – the 15-kilometer border between Saint Martin (France) and Sint Maarten (Netherlands) on an island in the Caribbean Sea.

For what it’s worth, Wikipedia dates its formalization to 1817.

By: January First-of-May

January First-of-May — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 07:09:46 +0000

It is somewhat unfortunate that this map only has land borders. Surely some of the world's naval borders have their own interesting history. Also, I don't see the Saint Martin/Sint Maarten border, and I suspect it's not the only missing border either (if perhaps probably the most important one).

By: Alex E

Alex E — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 14:30:25 +0000

The France-Italy border was redrawn in 1947, though!