Bosnia does have a 12 mile coastline
The reason it exists is so bizarre too. It stems from the rivalry between the republics of Venice and Ragusea (modern day Dubrovnik). Venice was gradually asserting control over more and more of the Adriatic coastline and Ragusea didn’t much fancy sharing a land border with its rival, so it just gave up one tiny stretch of land each to its north and south to the Ottoman Empire. Venice would therefore have to come by sea or risk angering the Ottomans. Eventually Austria manages to annex the Dalmatian territory of both Venice and Ragusea, but the Ottomans still held those two tiny strips of land. The Ottomans were not typically on the best of terms with Austria, and they held on to the two tiny bits of Adriatic coast up until the treaty of Berlin in 1879. By this point, Neum (the Bosnian one) had been part of Ottoman Bosnia for 179 years, so the borders were pretty damn entrenched, and they survived through the shifts to Austrian, Yugoslav, and eventually independent Bosnian-Herzegovinan political structures. So a petty but clever move of hiding behind a bigger empire in the 1600s created the tiny bit of Bosnian coastline today.
This is the Lemmy we all fighting for!
Mah boi! Peace is what all true warriors strive for.
Bosnia can have 12 miles of coastline. As a treat.
How much could 12 miles of coastline cost, 10 dollars?
But it has to share it with Herzegovina, so more like 6 miles for Bosnia and 6 miles for Herzegovina
That’s in Newtonian cartography. In quantum cartography, all 12 miles are in superposition.
In Gaussian Cartography nobody knows which coastline is which.
In Aristotelian geography, the coastline is infinitely divisible.
Neum is actually in Herzegovina but whatever. It’s inside a bay that Croatia controls from both sides, and in fact has a bridge over. If B&H got naughty again, they could turn it into a lake just by dumping enough clay from the bridge.
sad Bolivia noises
That part of Chile is almost 100 miles of desert. Croatia is only like 10-20 miles wide in that area!
There’s also a mountain range separating Chile from its neighbors.
South American countries:
It would be nice if we could expand ocean to ocean like our northern neighbors .
Chile:
NO
I once stayed in an AirBnB north of Dubrovnik. Driving through Bosnia for 20 minutes and doing 4 passport controls at a time was a real pain. Also had to be careful to switch off data roaming as the towers weren’t in the EU so the data charges went through the roof.
They now built a bridge that allows drivers to avoid the border checks by staying in Croatia
Sees a fun\interesting country boarder
Looks up reason
Finds new genocides\war crimes\colonialism was not previously aware of
Lay awake wondering how Jay Foreman is going to make jokes about this one
How is that science?
Well zero coastline is even shorter than these two for sure ;) But even if we ignore the trivial cases and small islands, Wikipedia lists Gibraltar as having shorter coastline.
If Tito was here, the Bosnians could go to the beach if they wanted to.
Ancient Illyria: “Am I a joke to you?”
