The US-Canada Border Is 5,500 Miles of Pure Nonsense

There's an entertaining CGP Grey video about other oddities in the US-Canada border. [VIDEO] Considering how inconvenient it is in some geographies and how small the patches of land are, I'm always surprised the State Department doesn't negotiate a land exchange treaty with Canada to fix what are essentially cartography bugs. Both sides would spend a few tens of millions compensating people for land seizures and dealing with the administrative overhead of negotiating and ratifying the deal but would gain it back over time with simplified border stations.

There's a great CGP Grey video on the Canada-US border well worth watching if this interests you: [VIDEO]

There is a great youtube video on this and similar can-US border irregularities. Search for "Canada-US no touching zone". There is another exclave near vancouver. [VIDEO]

There was much silliness with the boarder. They actually drew some of it using blank maps. [VIDEO] (And that map missed a huge part of the can-us boarder, focusing only on the southern one.)

[VIDEO] The border is defined as a straight line, but was surveyed as a series of slightly wobbly series of lines. They put up thousands of stone pillars, cut out a strip of trees along the border, and it became official. IIRC there's also some stuff about a disputed island