Do you know why the states of US and some countries of Africa have straight borders?
by 
engineer is Terminator is WOLV
ANSWERS: 7
-
because some guy with a ruler decided to arbitrarily draw lines on a map. That kind of thinking is a major cause of much of the ethnic fighting in the world.
-
Borders often follow natural geographical features - like rivers. These are naturally wobbly. Sometimes there are no such features in a convenient place and bureaucrats get to decide. and the easiest way is with a ruler along lines of latitude or longitude.
-
Thats mostly because their agricultural lands are divided in neat portion.So the State have straighter boundaries.
-
Cuz they dont like gay ones.
-
I recently learned that the northern border of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma follow the 37th parallel rather than the natural geographic figures. Apparently this was decided back in the day by the politicians in Washington who didn't really know about the landscape.
-
Traditional borders based own territory owned or gained through victories in war tend to have too many nicks and corners and curves. Straight lines as borders are the most convenient and uncontroversial. No border town can ask themselves to be merged with their richer neighbor. Straight line borders usually occur in newer countries or states with no inhibitions of language, culture etc. They also occur when a colonial ruler awards independence to a territory by splitting it into several countries as per the needs of the hour. This is not to say this works in all cases. Lord Mountbatten had a very difficult time in determining the borders of India and Pakistan. School going children love straight borders. It makes it easy for kids in schools to draw their maps without much trouble!
-
I was grossly mistaken.So it was the europeans who carved up africa without much consideration of tribal and nomadic peoples.It was easier to divide them this way..for their covenience. Never thought I was so poor at geography.:D
RELATED QUESTIONS
Copyright 2023, Wired Ivy, LLC