While you are looking through these pictures, some will take your breath away. At the same time you might start to ask yourself some questions about borders. How important are they? Do you think they need to be heavily patrolled? Do we need walls to help keeping people from crossing? Take a look at these 27 beautiful photos of borders from countries all over the world and see if you can imagine them with walls, or people patrolling them. As you look through them you will see that isn’t even possible with many.
1. Norway, Sweden and Finland.
2. India and Pakistan.
3. Norway, Sweden and Finland.
4. Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.
5. The Netherlands and Germany.
6. Canada and United States.
7. Germany, Czech Republic and Poland.
8. Morocco and Melilla.
9. Slovakia, Austria and Hungary.
10. Mexico and United States.
11. Netherlands and Belgium.
12. South Korea and North Korea.
13. Haiti and Dominican Republic.
14. Norway and Sweden.
15. Switzerland and France.
16. Netherlands and Belgium.
17. Switzerland and Italy.
18. Spain and Portugal.
19. Switzerland and Italy.
20. Brazil and Uruguay.
21. Sweden and Norway.
22. Netherlands and Belgium.
23. Sweden and Finland.
24. Australia and anywhere else.
25. Poland and Ukraine.
26. Germany and Netherlands.
27. China and Mongolia.
As a child, I never really understood borders. I mean it all looked the same to me. What was the significance? You crossed over an invisible line and it meant you were in a whole new place. That seemed very odd to me. Think about the randomness of it all. We are all just born into this world in random places. I was born on one piece of land within a certain border. And you onto another. Some people seem more fortunate to be born in better places than others. Think about how different your life would be if you were born into a different border. For some people who could mean the difference of just 10 feet.