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India and Bangladesh's bizarre border enclaves explained

Original: What on earth was this? Imagine a BANGLADESHI village surrounded by India. But Indian laws DIDN’T APPLY because the land

Attention is returning to the former India-Bangladesh enclaves, including a Bangladeshi village entirely surrounded by Indian territory where Indian law did not apply because the land legally belonged to Bangladesh. India once held 111 such enclaves inside Bangladesh, some nested inside others in a rare third-order arrangement. The enclaves were largely resolved in the 2015 land boundary agreement that exchanged territories between the two countries.

Why now: Curiosity about one of the world's strangest border arrangements after it was highlighted online.

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• What on earth was this? Imagine a BANGLADESHI village surrounded by India. But Indian laws DIDN’T APPLY because the land legally belonged to Bangladesh! • This wasn’t fiction. India had 111 enclaves inside Bangladesh, including a bizarre THIRD-ORDER ENCLAVE: land inside an · Indian_Analyzer · 2.9K

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