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Geography of regions, land and maritime borders, strategic corridors, straits, gaps, and other places that connect or divide territories.
Abkhazia is often introduced through its disputed status or the 1992–1993 war, but that makes the place itself disappear. Between the Black Sea and the Greater Caucasus, its…
The expected answer is a number, but the Middle East is a named region rather than a continent or a treaty-based bloc. Its edges shift among atlases, statistical…
The Strait of Hormuz is one of those places that turns up whenever oil prices jump or military tension rises in the Gulf. The reason is straightforward: it…
South Ossetia is often described as a frozen territorial dispute, but that label hides the people who lived through it. The central question is not only who controls…
