Jul. 16th, 2008

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Oh look, Boing Boing has discovered the Belgian town Baarle-Hertog and its Dutch neighbour Baarle-Nassau. There is no clear divide between the two towns, which means several houses stand on the border between Belgium and the Netherlands. There has been a case recently where they had to mark the border in a house where a body was found, to be sure whether the victim was in Belgium or in the Netherlands. I'm not quite sure whether this was in the exact same town.
More information in the original post they linked to (although I have the feeling there are some mistakes in that post), or on Wikipedia.
Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau are indeed part of the bigger town Baarle, which for some historical reason, got divided between what later was to become Belgium and the Netherlands.

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