Nowhere near Colombia with a second O, but it's in British Columbia and also in Columbia as in the poetic name for the USA. It's actually what British Columbia is named after!
If you zoom in on it on a map app it’s all kinds of messed up at the tri-state corner. Like all the borders were a little off and they drew the lines to the point as they got closer.
This isn’t zoomed in enough to show that the squiggly border is the middle of the river between SA and Vic. but the south bank of the river between NSW and Vic.
The Toledo Strip is in the picture, but the reason this got fucked up in the first place is actually Indiana just demanding Congress give them access to Lake Michigan, a couple decades before the war. If Indiana didn't have access to the lake federally recognized, the Toledo Strip dispute would have extended all the way across Michigan's border, because it was based on competing surveys.
EDIT: I should clarify for everyone who isn't in the picture, Indiana is the lower left state that touches the lake in its northwest corner. Ohio, bottom right, actually 'won' the war and contains the Toledo Strip, and that actually made the jagged edge less fucked up, but Michigan got a giant mountain full of iron as a compromise, which is why all of America's early car manufacturers ended up in Detroit, making it a city.
Even Colorado does weird things when you look close enough.
Along its north border with Nebraska there are lots of short curved roads connecting county roads from each state where the border seems to curve a bit too.
I looked at this on google maps and even better, when you zoom in on that top right corner of Indiana the east-west border there isn't even a straight line. It bends slightly when it reaches the road a few hundred yards to the west
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nocturne@slrpnk.net · 51 pts · 268d
We have our own in New Mexico.
Skua@kbin.earth · 17 pts · 268d
Today I learned that there's a river called "Canadian River" half a continent away from Canada I guess
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 268d
We used to really like them. Now only some of us do
Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
There's also the Columbia River, that starts in Canada and flows through the PNW US, but nowhere near Columbia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Skua@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 268d
Nowhere near Colombia with a second O, but it's in British Columbia and also in Columbia as in the poetic name for the USA. It's actually what British Columbia is named after!
Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
I s'pose you're "technically correct" lol I should take my meds
Skua@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 268d
Well hey, you should be doing that regardless of who was right. Take care of yourself, Beever
snooggums@piefed.world · 6 pts · 268d
I didn't know about either of these and my day is now in ruins.
snooggums@piefed.world · 4 pts · 268d
Oh no, the Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota connection is goofy too!
Gonna go lie down.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 4 pts · 267d
Oklahoma is a pox on us all.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
If you zoom in on it on a map app it’s all kinds of messed up at the tri-state corner. Like all the borders were a little off and they drew the lines to the point as they got closer.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 267d
The crop circles are kinda neat
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 42 pts · 268d
Meanwhile in Belgium and the Netherlands
Albbi@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 268d
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 268d
What's so bad about that, the blue line is slightly crooked?
Oh that's a road.
What are all these black lines and squares?
Oh.
oh no.
Hagdos@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 268d
You mean in the Netherlands in Belgium in the Netherlands?
sawdustprophet@midwest.social · 7 pts · 268d
"You got some Netherlands in my Belgium!" "No, you got some Belgium in my Netherlands!"
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 267d
Why does this sound like a bit from Map Men?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 268d
The existence of this alone is proof that the entire concept of borders is absurd.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 268d
Cartographers needed job security
Horsey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 268d
Actually a really cool place to walk around for a day. Buy fireworks then take the NS to Tilburg and get a joint in the same afternoon lol.
quinkin@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 268d
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 7 pts · 268d
Ok, this is worse.
toholio@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 267d
This isn’t zoomed in enough to show that the squiggly border is the middle of the river between SA and Vic. but the south bank of the river between NSW and Vic.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 268d
Looks like it follows a river, so I'll give it a pass. The Michigan one is just dumb.
toholio@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 267d
It follows the middle of the river for part of it and the southern bank for the rest.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 267d
Wait, why the southern bank?
toholio@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 267d
There was a legal case involving the wrongful death of someone in a boat that needed the boundary better defined for jurisdictional reasons and some older documents said “the whole watercourse” was part of NSW: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/1980/11.html
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 268d
Ahh the Toledo Strip, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War
midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 268d
The Toledo Strip is in the picture, but the reason this got fucked up in the first place is actually Indiana just demanding Congress give them access to Lake Michigan, a couple decades before the war. If Indiana didn't have access to the lake federally recognized, the Toledo Strip dispute would have extended all the way across Michigan's border, because it was based on competing surveys.
EDIT: I should clarify for everyone who isn't in the picture, Indiana is the lower left state that touches the lake in its northwest corner. Ohio, bottom right, actually 'won' the war and contains the Toledo Strip, and that actually made the jagged edge less fucked up, but Michigan got a giant mountain full of iron as a compromise, which is why all of America's early car manufacturers ended up in Detroit, making it a city.
BakerBagel@midwest.social · 3 pts · 268d
And then Indiana ruined that lake access by slapping Gary there
compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 268d
Toledo War
Agent641@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 267d
Zoom out and look at the border between Western Australia and Restern Australia. Satisfying.
Then zoom in on the intersection of Western Australia, South Australia and Northern Territory.
There's a story to it, I can't decide if it's malicious compliance, feature-not-bug or "not my fucking job".
M1ch431@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 268d
All borders are gore
snooggums@piefed.world · 5 pts · 268d
"Am I a joke to you?"
-Colorado
Skua@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 268d
Colorado has 697 sides
snooggums@piefed.world · 6 pts · 268d
Congress declared it was a rectangle. Take that, reality!
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 268d
pez@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 268d
Even Colorado does weird things when you look close enough.
Along its north border with Nebraska there are lots of short curved roads connecting county roads from each state where the border seems to curve a bit too.
Godric@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 268d
Please don't post *hio without a trigger warning, thanks
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 268d
This is the Internet. You can swear all you want, but thank you for censoring mentions of you know where.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 268d
The Toledo War (1835–1836), also known as the Michigan–Ohio War or Ohio–Michigan War, was a boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan over what is now known as the Toledo Strip. Control of the Maumee River's mouth and the inland shipping opportunities it represented, and the good farmland to the west, were seen by both parties as valuable economic assets.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 268d
The joke goes that Ohio lost, and that's why they're stuck with Toledo.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 268d
But the bump is more to the right and pretty much only fits Toledo. Fuck Toledo.
Squibbles@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 268d
I looked at this on google maps and even better, when you zoom in on that top right corner of Indiana the east-west border there isn't even a straight line. It bends slightly when it reaches the road a few hundred yards to the west
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 268d
Guessing there is a huge Walmart there that got in the way
Wilco@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 268d
I hate this! Reeeeeeeee!
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 4 pts · 268d
That’s not very kentucky.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 268d
Yeah but let the people of ft Wayne live with that discomfort. They know what they did
criticon@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 268d
I'm ok with that in exchange of the UP
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 268d
Thanks, I hate you.