The phrase "around its border" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is located or happening in the vicinity of the edge or perimeter of an object or area.
Example: "The garden was beautifully landscaped with flowers planted around its border, creating a vibrant display."
Alternatives: "along its edge" or "at its perimeter".
When it's closed, walking around its border provides a splendid view, if not the serenity of being amid the flora.
Around its border are numerous little marks, where the artist had to clear the clogged nib of his pen.
One depicts a woman, perhaps a shaman or possibly the deceased, with a dragon and phoenix; one depicts a gentleman conveyed in what appears to be a dragon-shaped boat; and a third, reported to be from the same tomb as the latter, is a kind of religious almanac (the earliest known example of Chinese writing on silk) decorated around its border with depictions of deities and sacred plants.
How, asked hopeful observers around the world, could Kim Il-sung's Stalinist wasteland possibly survive under the pressure of its spectacular economic failures and the tide of democracy and capitalism rising around its borders?
Kim may find out, if China moves to punish North Korea with sanctions, if only as a means of maintaining its own credibility as a guarantor of some sort of stability around its borders.
The Turkish government's response to these attacks has been to restrict civil liberties, close one of the most popular newspapers and escalate its campaign against Kurdish forces on and around its borders.
Details leaked to the Egyptian media said the ceasefire was a four-point plan under which Israel and the Palestinian groups both commit to cease all hostile activity in Gaza or around its borders, and Israel will lift border controls, easing restrictions on the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza.
WASHINGTON Chinana is pressing a long-range modernization of its military, part of a strategy aimed at maximizing its leverage over Taiwan, extending its influence farther abroad, but avoiding conflict around its borders or with the United States, the Pentagon said on Friday in an annual report to Congress.
But almost any extension of Chinese influence in the area around its borders will be met with deep suspicion, at the very least, by the country with which it has the longest border.Arms and the MandarinsThe fear that China might one day turn against Russia, or against Russian interests, has led Russia to place strategic counterweights here and there.
Even for an emboldened Moscow, the Russian foray into Georgia carries substantial risks: not just global isolation from the Western democracies, but also anger from neighboring states of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact, the prospect of perpetual military quagmires around its borders, and nationalist reprisals like those that resulted from its crackdown in Chechnya.
To make a rectangle, for example, engineers add narrow slits around its borders on the template.
