3. Ireland 🇮🇪 is part of the EU 🇪🇺, and the land border and freedom of movement with the UK 🇬🇧 proved to be a tricky point to resolve in Brexit negotiations.

The "border" itself is 499km long with about 300 crossings, often entirely unmarked.

belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast…

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2. First of all, some clarification on terms: Ireland is an island in the north Atlantic.

The island is divided between the country Ireland 🇮🇪 (Éire in Irish, and
sometimes referred to as the "Republic of Ireland" or simply "the Republic") and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of…

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Irish 🇮🇪 #geoweirdness, secrets strange and bold,
across the isle, an odd tale to be told.
Cork to Donegal,
we'll unveil it all -
in this thread, the story will unfold.

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4. One famous example of border oddness is "the Drummully Polyp", an Irish 🇮🇪 pene-exclave.

The only road access is via Northern Ireland 🇬🇧.

openstreetmap.org/?mlat=54.157…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummull…

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A big welcome to all our new followers from recent days.

Once a week we do a thread about geo stuff, this week we turn our attention to one of the most geographically strange countries of them all: France 🇫🇷

Join us for this week's #geoweirdness thread

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