Sentence examples for shorter border from inspiring English sources

The better-known Berlin Wall was a physically separate, less elaborate, and much shorter border barrier surrounding West Berlin, more than 155 km to the east of the inner German border (Berlin having been similarly divided by the four powers after World War II, despite the entire city being in the Soviet zone, thus creating an enclave of capitalism surrounded by the communist east).

Stretching about 2,400 km from west to east and 1,700 km from north to south, Inner Mongolia shares a long international border with Mongolia (around 3,000 km) and a shorter border with Russia (less than 1,000 km).

In the years before they fought a short border war, in 1962, relations had been rosy.

It also has a short border with Xinjiang, China, at the end of the long, narrow Vākhān (Wakhan Corridor), in the extreme northeast.

Georgia's short border with Chechnya stretches along the ridge of the Caucasus Mountains, with peaks that reach 10,000 to 13,000 feet.

Russia has reportedly offered to finance improvements in the track between the demilitarized zone and North Korea's short border with Russia, in the far northeast.

General Makarov told the Interfax news service that a battalion equipped with an antimissile system was already deployed near Russia's short border with North Korea.

China shares a short border with Afghanistan, and Muslim Uighur separatists in that region have been a continuing problem for Mr. Jiang.

It rises on the Mesa Central 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Toluca and flows northwestward through the state of México, forming the short border between the states of Querétaro and Michoacán before meandering generally west-northwestward through Guanajuato.

The truth is that Kim was born a year earlier in the Soviet Union, at an army base near Khabarovsk, in the Soviet far east, not far from the short border shared by the two countries.

Mr. Losyukov said Russia feared that a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula would affect Russian territory and endanger Russian citizens living along the short border it shares with North Korea.