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The Republic of Vevčani issues passports and currency as part of a bid to attract tourists (Credit: Richard Collett)
Places That Don't Belong

Europe's isolated, rebellious village

By Richard Collett

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Places That Don't Belong

The isle that France and Spain share

By Mike MacEacheran
The Vennbahn is perhaps the world's most complicated boundary (Credit: jotily/Getty Images)
Places That Don't Belong

The world's weirdest border?

By Larry Bleiberg
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Places That Don't Belong

A ski town stuck in the wrong nation

By Mike MacEacheran
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Places That Don't Belong

The Spanish town lost in France

By Richard Collett
This year has seen the two countries enforce lockdowns at different times, with Welsh police issuing fines to visitors crossing over from England (Credit: Oliver Smith)
Adventure & Experience

Britain’s ancient, resurrected border

By Oliver Smith
The English town was once one of the biggest ports in Britain and an important economic anchor for Scotland (Credit: jiGoGo/Travel/Alamy)
Culture & Identity

Britain’s town with a split personality

By Mike MacEacheran
The principality was founded on 21 April 1970 by the late Leonard Casley (Credit: Olivier Chouchana/Getty Images)
Places That Don't Belong

The micronation you can't visit

By Richard Collett
Sealand was founded as a sovereign principality in 1967 in international waters (Credit: Robert Harding/Alamy)
Places That Don't Belong

A tiny ‘nation’ of British eccentricity

By Mike MacEacheran
The village of Campione d’Italia has a prime location on Lake Lugano (Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/Getty images)
Places That Don't Belong

A piece of Italy lost in Switzerland

By Larry Bleiberg
Celebrating a nation that doesn’t exist (Credit: Loop Images/Getty Images)
Places That Don't Belong

The ‘nation’ with a useless passport

By Sarah Reid
Point Roberts, Washington, can only be reached by boat, plane or driving through Canada (Credit: Larry Bleiberg)
Places That Don't Belong

A US town that lies in Canada

By Larry Bleiberg
The German town of Büsingen am Hochrhein is entirely surrounded by Switzerland (Credit: dpa picture alliance/Alamy)
Best of BBC Travel - 2019

Germany’s tiny geographic oddity

By Larry Bleiberg
The borders were not actually finalised until 1995, when the last remaining piece of land was attributed to Belgium (Credit: Andrew Eames)
Places That Don't Belong

Europe's strange border anomaly

By Andrew Eames
Linda LaMie: “There’s a pretty big learning curve coming up here and learning to survive” (Credit: Kristin Vuković)
Places That Don't Belong

The US land lost in Canada

By Kristin Vuković