Bosnia does have a 12 mile coastline
The reason it exists is so bizarre too. It stems from the rivalry between the republics of Venice and Ragusea (modern day Dubrovnik). Venice was gradually asserting control over more and more of the Adriatic coastline and Ragusea didn't much fancy sharing a land border with its rival, so it just gave up one tiny stretch of land each to its north and south to the Ottoman Empire. Venice would therefore have to come by sea or risk angering the Ottomans. Eventually Austria manages to annex the Dalmatian territory of both Venice and Ragusea, but the Ottomans still held those two tiny strips of land. The Ottomans were not typically on the best of terms with Austria, and they held on to the two tiny bits of Adriatic coast up until the treaty of Berlin in 1879. By this point, Neum (the Bosnian one) had been part of Ottoman Bosnia for 179 years, so the borders were pretty damn entrenched, and they survived through the shifts to Austrian, Yugoslav, and eventually independent Bosnian-Herzegovinan political structures. So a petty but clever move of hiding behind a bigger empire in the 1600s created the tiny bit of Bosnian coastline today.
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How much could 12 miles of coastline cost, 10 dollars?
Neum is actually in Herzegovina but whatever. It's inside a bay that Croatia controls from both sides, and in fact has a bridge over. If B&H got naughty again, they could turn it into a lake just by dumping enough clay from the bridge.
sad Bolivia noises
That part of Chile is almost 100 miles of desert. Croatia is only like 10-20 miles wide in that area!
There's also a mountain range separating Chile from its neighbors.
South American countries:
It would be nice if we could expand ocean to ocean like our northern neighbors .
Chile:
NO
Sees a fun\interesting country boarder
Looks up reason
Finds new genocides\war crimes\colonialism was not previously aware of
Lay awake wondering how Jay Foreman is going to make jokes about this one
I once stayed in an AirBnB north of Dubrovnik. Driving through Bosnia for 20 minutes and doing 4 passport controls at a time was a real pain. Also had to be careful to switch off data roaming as the towers weren’t in the EU so the data charges went through the roof.
How is that science?
You might have heard of a branch of science called geography
Tomorrow I'm gonna start reposting greentext@sh.itjust.works content on here and justifying it as anthropology.
Well zero coastline is even shorter than these two for sure ;) But even if we ignore the trivial cases and small islands, Wikipedia lists Gibraltar as having shorter coastline.
They actually gave a small bit of land so croatia actually has a exclave.
Pain in the arse if you're staying in Split and do a day trip to Dubrovnik. You pass thru customs and immigration twice in the space of 100 meters and 2 hours.
Yeah, depends on the route you take tho. Also bosnia is really beautiful and kinda underrated.
I mean they did try to genocide them a few years later so.....
Weren't the Bosnians and Croatians more or less on the same side during the Yugoslav wars?
It's sort of a Missouri during the civil war situation.
The official militia presence of Croatia joined with serboans and created a militia.... And the exact same thing happened on the other side. (VJ, HVO)
It was more a religious issue than nationality.
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