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Border Town
A border town is a town or city close to the boundary between two countries, states, or regions. Usually the term implies that the nearness to the border is one of the things the place is most famous for. With close proximities to a different country, diverse cultural traditions can have certain influence to the place. Border towns can have highly cosmopolitan communities, a feature they share with port cities, as traveling and trading often go through the town. They can also be flashpoints for international conflicts, especially when the two countries have territorial disputes. Transcontinental List of international border towns and cities Africa Asia Europe Disputed City North America Oceania South America List of internal border towns and cities Australia Canada Colombia United Kingdom United States {, class="wikitable" , - ! Border towns!! Bordering states and territories , - , Ardmore and Ardmore, , / , - , Lanet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative status, or historical significance. In some regions, towns are formally defined by legal charters or government designations, while in others, the term is used informally. Towns typically feature centralized services, infrastructure, and governance, such as municipal authorities, and serve as hubs for commerce, education, and cultural activities within their regions. The concept of a town varies culturally and legally. For example, in the United Kingdom, a town may historically derive its status from a market town designation or City status in the United Kingdom, royal charter, while in the United States, the term is often loosely applied to incorporated municipality, municipalities. In some countries, such as Australia and Canada, distinction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adré
Adré () is the main town of the Assoungha department in the Ouaddaï Region of Chad. It is located very close to Chad's eastern border with Sudan, 400m away. The town is served by Adré Airport. History The Chadian-Sudanese conflict began on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the "common enemy", by which term the Chadian government referred to Rally for Democracy and Liberty (RDL) militants, who were Chadian rebels backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese militiamen. Militants had attacked villages and towns in eastern Chad, stealing cattle, murdering citizens, and burning houses. Over 200,000 refugees from the Darfur region of northwestern Sudan claimed asylum in eastern Chad. Chadian president Idriss Déby accused Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of trying to "destabilize our country, to drive our people into misery, to create disorder and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Source Yubu
Source Yubu (also known as Ri-Yubu) is a village located near the border of Central African Republic - South Sudan in Western Equatoria, South Sudan. History Due to the sleeping sickness outbreak in Zandeland in 1918, Source Yubu was founded in 1920 as a place to treat sleeping sickness patients. Anyanya rebels commanded by Ferdinand Goi attacked Source Yubu in 1965. The SPLA captured Source Yubu on 2 December 1991. The LRA attacked Joint Integrated Units forces in Source Yubu on 1 March 2007. Having a superior number over its adversary, the LRA managed to loot shops and civilian properties in the town. Almost one year later, on 19 February 2008, the LRA attacked Source Yubu. They killed four civilians and seven SPLA soldiers. Further, the militias abducted 27 people, burned 70 houses and a trading center, and looted villagers' properties. The LRA raided Source Yubu on 4 February 2011. They killed four and abducted seven villagers. In early November 2015, the clash betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bambouti
Bambouti is a sub-prefecture of Haut-Mbomou in the Central African Republic. The town is abandoned by the country. Geography It is located on the RN2 national road 110 km east of the capital of Haut-Mbomou: Obo, near the border between the Central African Republic and South Sudan. History On May 2, 2002, the locality is erected in chief town of sub-prefecture of Haut-Mbomou, by the separation of the eastern part of the sub-prefecture of Obo. At the end of 2015, the locality receives refugees from South Sudan, nearby. Central African Republic Civil War (2012-present) In October 2019 armed group Union for Peace in the Central African Republic took control of Bambouti. Later, the Lord's Resistance Army took control of the area. On 8 November 2020, in response to UPC incursion into South Sudan territories, an armed group from South Sudan led by James Nando Mark attacked Bambouti and killed two UPC members. Afterward, the armed group withdrew to South Sudan and UPC regained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakel, Senegal
Bakel is a town and urban commune, with a population of 18,939, located in the eastern part of Senegal, West Africa. The town is located on the left bank of the Sénégal River, from the Malian border and linked by canoe ferry to the village of Gouraye in Mauritania. Bakel is one of the four eponymous departmental capitals in the region of Tambacounda, the other three being Tambacounda, Goudiry and Koumpentoum. Bakel is known for its French fort (Fort Bakel), which René Caillié visited in 1819. It was also the area where the Mauritanian crisis occurred, a dispute over grazing rights that led to a war between Senegal and Mauritania in 1989. As a result of this conflict, many people around the area moved abroad or emigrated to Senegal. People and Culture The majority of the population belong to the Soninke-speaking ethnic group, a dialect of the larger Mande Languages language family. There is also a substantial Pulaar ( Fula) speaking minority as well as a significant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahaï, Chad
Bahaï () is the capital of the Ennedi Est department of Chad. It is located in the Ennedi Region, which was formed in 2008 from the Ennedi Est and Ennedi Ouest departments of the former Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region. Bahaï has been affected by the ongoing Darfur conflict The War in Darfur, also nicknamed the Land Cruiser War, was a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups ..., with the city receiving large numbers of refugees across the border from Sudan. and the town's United Nations humanitarian forces were reduced to a "minimum presence" in early December 2006 due to the danger posed to workers. References Populated places in Chad Ennedi-Est Region {{Chad-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badme
Badme (, ) is a town in Gash-Barka region of Eritrea. Control of the town was at the centre of the Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict, which lasted from the beginning of the Eritrean–Ethiopian War, in 1998, to the signing of a joint statement at the Eritrea–Ethiopia summit in 2018, twenty years later. Territorial dispute The boundaries of Ethiopia and Eritrea follow a frontier defined by the Treaty of Addis Ababa between Ethiopia and Italy, which ruled Eritrea as a colony at the time. However, the frontier near Badme was poorly defined in the treaty, and since Eritrea became a separate nation in 1993, each nation has disputed where the boundary actually runs. The town of Badme was ceded by the TPLF (the predecessor of the EPRDF, Ethiopia's former ruling party) to the EPLF (the predecessor of the PFDJ, Eritrea's ruling organization) in November 1977. The Ethiopian government considered Badme as one of four towns in Tahtay Adiyabo woreda. In addition to Badme, other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assamo
Assamo (), also known as Ina ‘Assamo, It is located around south of the capital, Djibouti City. The surrounding district is rich in both livestock and fledgeling agriculture. Its population, with the nomadic and semi-nomadic neighborhoods is estimated at 1,211 people. Overview The village was originally built on the valley of Guestir, with houses constructed of traditional Aqal. During the Middle Ages, Assamo was ruled by the Ifat Sultanate and Adal Sultanate. In the first half of the 20th century, Assamo formed a part of French Somaliland. The French colonial authorities sent a military detachment to reconnoiter the region, in order to prepare the installation of a fort on the hilltop, intended to secure the borders of French Somaliland. The town is not only growing fast but it is also developing with the scale, and it have been able to provide basic services, such transport, education, health facilities and all that coupled with a fine weather. Assamo lies along a river, ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assamakka
Assamakka is a small desert town in northern Niger at a main border crossing with Algeria. It is the only official crossing point between the two nations. Assamakka shares the border with the larger town of In Guezzam 10 km on the Algerian side. A main road extends north in Algeria to Tamanrasset, 400 km away. Assamakka is connected to the town of Arlit, 200 km to the south by a road which remains in largely a sand "Piste". From Arlit, the "Uranium Highway", a tarred road built in the 1970s for mining trucks, travels south to Agadez and Niamey. Border regulation While the military on either side of the border have frequently closed this border post to traffic due to Tuareg insurgencies of the 1990s and 2000s, the border area in this region has no effective controls or even marking. Geography The area around Assamakka is flat and absolutely desert: the rocky plains of the Toussasset region begin just to the east, and are punctuated by Ergs, or "dune seas". To t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariamsvlei
Ariamsvlei is a settlement of about 500 people in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia and a border post between Namibia and South Africa, located east of Karasburg on the national B3 road. It lies at above sea level. The border post with South Africa lies to the east of the settlement; however, the actual border (at the 20th meridian east) lies further east along the B3, near the South African settlement of Nakop. South Africa's border post (also named Nakop) is located a further away. Ariamsvlei is an important rest stop for long-distance trucks, and a railway stop on the line between Windhoek and Upington Upington () is a town founded in 1873 and located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, on the banks of the Orange River. The town was originally called Olijvenhoutsdrift ('Olive wood drift'), due to the abundance of olive wood trees i .... It belongs to the Karasburg electoral constituency. The settlement has a petrol station, a shop, and a restaura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andéramboukane
Andéramboukane (var. Andéramboucane) is a town and ''cercle'' in Ménaka Region, Mali. It lies at the extreme east of the country, several kilometers north of the Nigerien border. It was previously a commune in Ménaka Cercle but was promoted to the status of a ''cercle'' when Ménaka Region was implemented in 2016. Andéramboukane is a rural, isolated, and largely desert area, crisscrossed by seasonal wadis, part of an ancient dry river system of the Azawagh region (the Iullemmeden Basin). The area is just south of the rocky outcrops of the Ader Douchi hills, and north of the Sahel scrubland which begins in Niger. Most of the population of the area are nomadic Tuareg or other nomadic minorities, including the Wodaabe Fula. The sedentary population is a largely low caste Tuareg community. The town is a seasonal gathering point for the Kel Dinnik Tuareg confederation, who travel from the desert Azawagh in the rainy season and the Niger River valley in the dry season. Sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Bay, South Africa
Alexander Bay () is a town in the extreme north-west of South Africa. It is located on the southern bank of the Orange River mouth. It was named for Sir James Alexander, who was the first person to map the area whilst on a Royal Geographical Society expedition into Namibia in 1836. (It is mistakenly believed by many locals that it was he who first established commercial copper mining in the area.) With diamonds being discovered along the West Coast in 1925, Alexander Bay was established to service the mining industry. The town of Oranjemund lies on the northern bank of the river, which forms the international border with Namibia. The two towns are linked by the Ernest Oppenheimer Bridge, named for Ernest Oppenheimer in 1951. The town is served by Alexander Bay Airport. History Diamonds After diamonds were discovered along this coast in 1925 by Dr Hans Merensky, Alexander Bay became known for its mining activities. The resulting diamond rush led to the Diamond Coast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
