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With what country does France share its longest land border?
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Recursion
(56,582 posts)underpants
(182,734 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)underpants
(182,734 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I may be wrong, but
underpants
(182,734 posts)I was kidding
Recursion
(56,582 posts)underpants
(182,734 posts)I was kidding. I think I found the answer. Interesting.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)That is not a good look
CurtEastPoint
(18,635 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)yonder
(9,663 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)They serrated their border especially to artificially lengthen it.
lastlib
(23,197 posts)WHUH???!1?
730 km --
Second is Spain, 623 km, then Belgium, 620 km, then Switzerland, 573 km.
BRAZIL??!? Still shaking my head over that one.......
underpants
(182,734 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Brazil. Brazil and France are also the two countries with a land border whose capital cities are farthest apart.
The French Guiana/Brazil land border is France's longest land border, and actually takes up the vast majority of their border control budget since all of their other bordering states are members of the EU and Schengen.
France also shares a causeway connection with Canada, and a land border with the Netherlands on a Caribbean island.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)If so, French Guyana and Brazil would share a substantial land border.
-Laelth
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Its citizens are citizens of France and of the EU, although there are practicalities that don't let them operate entirely within the Single Market, though France is working to rectify those.
I knew France still held on to Martinique and Corsica. Wasnt sure whether French Guyana was still un departement de la Republique.
Good to know!
-Laelth
DFW
(54,330 posts)Paris to Brasilia--that is a hard distance to beat between two countries with an adjacent land border.