Quiz National Parks

Welcome to the challenge: Quiz National Parks

1.

In Europe, there is a very special hotel, the Arbez Franco-Suisse, where you can sleep with your legs in Switzerland and your head in France. To what curious border anomaly does it owe its existence?

The border line literally cuts through the building because it was constructed just before the final border was defined in that area in 1862.

It is a neutral territory administered by the U.N. due to an 18th-century Alpine conflict.

The hotel was a diplomatic gift from Napoleon III to the Swiss Confederation.

It is due to the natural diversion of an underground river that marked the original boundary between both countries.

2.

If you travel to the Netherlands, you can visit Baarle-Nassau, famous for hosting one of the most complex geopolitical puzzles in the world. How does its border function?

The city's sovereignty changes countries automatically every six months depending on the season.

It is a fully independent territory governed by a council of mayors of many different nationalities.

The border moves three feet to the north every year due to the sinking of the ground caused by the polders.

It is composed of more than 20 Belgian enclaves inside Dutch territory, which in turn contain Dutch counter-enclaves within them.

3.

If you look at the map of Southern Africa, you will see that the country of Lesotho has a very particular geographical location on the continent. What is its anomaly?

It is divided into two perfect halves by a strip of sea belonging to Madagascar.

It is the only country in the world whose land border is a perfectly circular line.

It is a country that constitutes a total enclave, meaning it is completely surrounded by the territory of a single nation (South Africa).

It lacks fixed land borders because its territory is redefined every year according to river floods.

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