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steve2470

(37,468 posts) Sun Jan 9, 2022, 09:14 PM Jan 2022

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Geography trivia: Russia, China and North Korea borders intersection

Intersection of Russian, Chinese and North Korean borders in the middle of the Tumen River

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Maybe it's not really in the very middle of that river, but it makes sense. No sense squabbling over a boundary under water

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Geography trivia: Russia, China and North Korea borders intersection (Original Post) steve2470 Jan 2022 OP

I don't know if I knew that underpants Jan 2022 #1

Distance between the United States and Russia: 2.4 miles TomWilm Jan 2022 #2

According to an answer on Jeopardy! a few years ago, that's Russia's shortest foreign border, mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 #3

underpants

(191,704 posts)

1. I don't know if I knew that

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Sun Jan 9, 2022, 09:20 PM

Jan 2022

Very interesting

TomWilm

(1,911 posts)

2. Distance between the United States and Russia: 2.4 miles

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Mon Jan 10, 2022, 07:16 PM

Jan 2022

mahatmakanejeeves

(65,870 posts)

3. According to an answer on Jeopardy! a few years ago, that's Russia's shortest foreign border,

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Mon Jan 10, 2022, 07:28 PM

Jan 2022

the one it shares with North Korea.

A few miles upriver, China is barely wider than the railroad right of way.

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