Why the Canada–US Border Shouldn’t Look Like This

Описание: Why the Canada–US Border Shouldn’t Look Like This
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The border between the United States and Canada looks simple on a map — a clean, straight line stretching almost 9,000 kilometers.
But that line hides one of the strangest, most misunderstood borders in the world. Beneath its peaceful reputation lies a story of mapping mistakes, forgotten treaties, isolated towns, territorial disputes, and a massive human-made “border strip” visible from space.
In this documentary, we uncover the real history of the U.S.–Canada border:
a boundary drawn in the 1700s using primitive tools, reshaped by accidents, corrected by negotiations, and still guarded and maintained with astonishing precision.
Travel with us from the Atlantic coast through the Great Lakes, across the 49th parallel, around the bizarre bend of the Northwest Angle, deep into the forests of Alaska and Yukon, and into towns where the border literally cuts through homes, libraries, and streets.
Nothing about this dividing line is as straightforward as it seems.
Along the way you’ll discover:
Why hundreds of kilometers of the border are perfectly cleared in a 6-meter-wide “no-touch zone”
How the U.S. accidentally gained pockets of land completely cut off from the mainland
Why Canada and the U.S. still quietly disagree over tiny islands near Maine
How 19th-century survey teams created more than 900 micro-deviations in a supposedly straight border
Why thousands of border markers had to be hammered into wilderness and mountains
How places like Point Roberts and Campobello Island became geographic anomalies
And why the border remains one of the most unique engineering and political creations in modern history

This is not just a line on a map.
This is a story of geography, politics, error, and human determination — shaping the longest international border on Earth.

If you love geopolitics, real-world geography, international relations, or strange map stories, this video is for you.