Talk:Border/Archives/2014

wrong
I think this is just wrong. Borders that "are open and completely unguarded" are not borders in the sense of the topic. Some territory assigned to some administrative entity (eg: the area of a city grandmother's bingo tournament has) does not have a 'border,' in the sense that the word is commonly understood as. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.176.34.187 (talk) 22:51, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Disagree. Intra-Schengen borders, while open and unguarded, are still very much valid in legislation. Even if all traffic is free to move across, different rules and regulations apply on either side. That's what constitutes a border. Same applies to borders between US states. Johnnyjanko (talk) 12:27, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Oldest extant border in the world?
Exactly what qualifies as the World's oldest border? IIRC, the border between England and Scotland was set up in the 13th century (and underwent only minor changes since). Moreover, the border on the river Morava's lower section (currently a border between Austria and Slovakia) has existed since the times of Charlemagne! Empires and countries changed, but there has always been a distinct border on the river. Johnnyjanko (talk) 12:37, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Borders of the World????
The image gallery hardly has any pictures of borders other than few countries! It would be better if there are few more and then call it by that name.Elncid (talk) 05:10, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I would also encourage to expand the gallery, as, with respect to this topic, pictures talk more than many words. It might be a good idea to insert many more photos, and to sort them by border types ("extremely closed-off" to "extremely open", to include signposts which contain interesting legal particularities (as the picture containing the nowadays obsolete signpost in the Czech/Polish mountain range, perhaps a picture section for historic borders, as the Berlin Wall). The reason why only pictures shown from some regions of the world might be a very practical one: Many countries which habe problems with their neighbours or which want to lock whatever persons into or out of their territory regard their border areas as closed areas, do not allow access into border areas except for security staff or military, or, at least, disallow or disencourage the taking of photographs, while official photographs provided by those countries might not meet the copyright requirements . Another reason might be that inhabitants of countries with land borders which are rather or completely open are a kind of proud of this achievement, in particular in Europe, where wars and border disputes had cost many human lives in the past.--DanSchultz (talk) 16:52, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Why are there Borders between US states and counties in there? 75.119.245.177 (talk) 23:57, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Probably, and properly, because they are borders. I think this is correct, as the topic of the article is not "international border", but "border". --DanSchultz (talk) 16:52, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

History
I think this article should contain a section about the history of national borders. — Preceding unsigned comment added by StarchildSF (talk • contribs) 11:51, 27 August 2014 (UTC)