Important Borders & Boundaries by Dr. Gaurav Garg
International Border Lines of India
● Line of Control (LOC) - The Line of Control is a military control line between the Indian and
Pakistani controlled parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir
● Line of Actual Control (LAC) - The Line of Actual Control is a notional demarcation line that separates
Indian-controlled territory from Chinese-controlled territory in the Sino-Indian border dispute.
● Radcliffe Line - India-Pakistan border and India-Bangladesh border both are called Radcliffe Line.
● Sir Creek , originally Ban Ganga - The creek flows into the Arabian Sea and separates Gujarat state in India from Sindh
province in Pakistan.
● McMahon Line - The McMahon Line is a demarcation line between Tibet and the North-east region of India.
17 th Parallel
● The 17 th latitude from the equator divided erstwhile North and
South Vietnam.
● It was the military demarcation line established in Vietnam by the
Geneva Accords (1954).
● The 17th parallel became irrelevant after the unification of
Vietnam in 1976.
● Vietnam War, (1954–75), a conflict that pitted the communist
government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam,
known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South
Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
20 th Parallel
● It is located at the 20 th northern
latitude which is used as the
border between Sudan and Libya .
22 nd Parallel
● The 22 nd latitude north of the
equator marks a major portion of
the Sudan-Egypt border .
25 th Parallel
● The northernmost section of the
Mali-Mauritania border is marked
using this line.
16 th Parallel
● Angola and Namibia
31 st Parallel
● The 31st northern latitude marks the border between Iraq and Iran .
38 th Parallel
● It is used to demarcate the central part of the Demilitarized zone between North and South Korea .
49 th Parallel
● Demarcated after the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 and the Oregon Treaty of 1846, it forms the international
border between the northern USA (Excluding Alaska) and Canada .
Hindenburg line
● It represents the line to which Germans retreated during the First
World War, representing the boundary between Poland and
Germany .
Mannerheim Line
● Finland built this as a defensive line against the Soviet Union for the Winter War during World War II.
Oder-Neisse Line
● Poland and Germany.
● It runs along the rivers Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers.
Siegfried Line
● France and Germany.
● It was built as an extension of the Hindenburg defensive line on the
western front of World War I by the Weimar Republic and later the
Third Reich of Germany in the 1930s.
Maginot Line
● Germany and France
● It was a defensive line at the French border towards Germany before
World War II.
** The Siegfried Line was made by Germany and the Maginot Line was
made by France.
24 th parallel
● The parallel defines a short section of the border between India and Myanmar.
● India lies in the North-East Hemisphere.
● 4 states of India share border with Myanmar - Arunachal, Nagaland, Manipur,
Mizoram.
The “ Green Line ” was the 1949 armistice line that separates
Israel from the West Bank.
Blue Line - Border of Lebanon with Israel.
The purple line was the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria
after the 1967 Six-Day War and serves as the de facto border
between the two countries.
Curzon Line , demarcation line between Poland and Soviet Russia that was proposed during the Russo-Polish War of
1919–20.
Longest border - The longest continuous international border is the United States/Canadian border and is 5,525 miles long.
Highest Border - The international border between China and Nepal crosses the precise summit point of Mount Everest
which peaks at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level, making it the highest border in the world.
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