Forty-one communities participated in mapping their lands, boundaries, vegetation, rivers, land use, and more through drawings overlaid on geographical maps.
The Indira-Mujib Land Boundary Agreement in 1974 was meant to change all that.
"That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land — boundary that we have with — Canada," she replied.
It failed to do this; American mediation in 1929 awarded Tacna to Peru and Arica to Chile and fixed the land boundary between the two countries.
This signifies closer engagement in areas as diverse as joint water resources management, land boundary demarcation, trade, power, connectivity, infrastructure, culture, education, etc.
Along the narrow Chignecto Isthmus, which seems to thrust the peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean, runs the province's only land boundary, with New Brunswick to the west.
To the north it is bordered by Thailand, with which it shares a land boundary of some 300 miles (480 km).
These two states occupy roughly the northern fourth of the large island of Borneo and share a land boundary with the Indonesian portion (Kalimantan) of the island to the south.
The land boundary between Asia and Europe is a historical and cultural construct that has been defined variously; only as a matter of agreement is it tied to a specific borderline.
If Britain votes to leave the EU on 23 June, the twisting line along which the island of Ireland was divided in the 1920s will become the UK's only land boundary with the European Union – a cartographic forcefield beyond which the might of Brussels cannot progress.
