USA-Canada Border
Alaska (AK) // Yukon (YT) and British Columbia (BC) |
USA-Russia maritime border along the International Date Line.
The boundary divides the Diomede Islands into Ratmanow [eng: Big Diomede] Island, Magadan County, East Siberia, Russian Federation and Little Diomede [rus: Kruzenstern] Island, Nome County, Alaska, United States of America. The distance between the both islands is less than 2.5 miles (ca. 4 km). |
Satellite photo of the Diomede Islands |
View from the north of Bering Strait to the Diomede Islands
(Photo by Dave Cohoe on July 16, 2006) Ratmanow [eng: Big Diomede] Island, Magadan County, East Siberia, RF Little Diomede [rus: Kruzenstern] Island, Nome County, Alaska, USA The distance between the both islands is less than 2.5 miles (ca. 4 km). |
USA-Canada Border along the 49th parallel
Washington (WA) // British Columbia (BC) |
USA-Canada Border along the 49th parallel
Idaho (ID) // British Columbia (BC) |
USA-Canada Border along the 49th parallel
Montana (MT) // British Columbia (BC), Alberta (AB), and Saskatchewan (SK) |
USA-Canada Border along the 49th parallel
North Dakota (ND) // Sasketchewan (SK) and Manitoba (MB) |
USA-Canada Border along the 49th parallel
Minnesota (MN) // Manitoba (MB) and Ontario (ON) |
USA-Canada Border
Michigan (MI) // Ontario (ON) |
USA-Canada Border
Ohio (OH) // Ontario (ON) |
California State Flag
and coastal area |
Arizona State Flag
and Saguaro cacti |
New Mexico State Flag
and hot-air balloons |
Texas State Flag
and field of cotton |
USA-Mexico Border |
California (CA) // Baja California (BC) // 140 miles [225 km]
California border counties: San Diego and Imperial |
Arizona (AZ) // Sonora (SO) // 389 miles [626 km]
Arizona border counties: Yuma, Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise |
New Mexico (NM) // Chihuahua (CH) // 180 miles [290 km]
New Mexico border counties: Hidalgo, Luna, and Doña Ana |
Texas (TX) // Chihuahua (CH), Coahuila (CO), Nuevo Leon (NL), Tamaulipas (TM) // 1,241 miles [1.997 km]
Texas border counties: El Paso, Hudspeth, Presidio, Brewster, Terrell, Val Verde, Kinney, Maverick, Webb, Zapata, Starr, Hidalgo, and Cameron |
The light-grey and dark-grey shaded area shows the USA-Mexico border region, 62.5 miles [100 km] north and south of the international boundary. It stretches approximately 2,000 miles from the southern tip of Texas (Gulf of Mexico) to the Californian Pacific coast. |
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to learn more about the most frequently crossed international border in the world, with
ca. 350 million people legally (and about half a million illegally from Mexico to USA) crossing per year. |
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