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Why is it called a Strait with all those curves?!
Because a long, long time ago some Roman dudes though it was a good idea to make that word mean “thin”.
I have a strait peepee
They call me Crassus the Tuna Can.
The musk of victory is upon you
So people fight over it?
Also it should be called the Bendy of Hormuz
Dude just speed the ships up and skid over the land (while drifting) and slide back into the water so sick
Looking up who controlled that peninsula, I found this lovely feature:
The UAE controls a lot of that peninsula, but the tip is controlled by Oman. Halfway down the peninsula is a roughly circular region, inland, that is controlled by Oman, but surrounded by territory controlled by UAE. Inside that circular region is an even smaller circular region controlled by UAE. I wonder how that happened.
Kind of like this:
Ah yes, the daylight savings donut. The most confusing bite of desert you’ll ever have
Borders are stupid.
Wow, that has to be confusing.
These are called Exclaves and there’s way more of them than you might think. I think this isn’t the only double Exclaves either. There are so many border fuckery things around the world, even in countries you might not expect, I want to make a YouTube video on them, I’m obsessed with finding them on google maps.
Take a look at the border of Nederland and België for an extreme example:
Wow, I knew the border wasn’t a straight line, but I didn’t realize quite how fractal it was. It’s like they interviewed each household and decided on a case-by-case basis who was Belgian and who was Dutch.
If you look closely it’s not even house by house. Much of it is just random fields or parts of fields. Maybe houses stood there decades or centuries earlier when the borders were drawn up, IDK
It also funnels all the traffic into an even narrower pass that can be easily blocked by a bad actor
Why would Carrot Top want to block traffic?
