What are some countries that most people would be shocked to learn border each other?
Can’t figure it out? Maybe a bigger map view will help
Yes, that is the US State of Alaska on the right and the east coast of Russia (Siberia) on the left. The angled line on the map shows the border and the apex of the angle is where the two islands in the picture above are—Little Diomede (USA/Alaska) and Big Diomede (Russia).
The two islands are less than 2.4 miles apart and in the winter the Bering Sea freezes enough to walk from one to the other.
This view, looking to the South, illustrates the closeness of the two islands.
Big Diomede is unoccupied but Little Diomede has a small village on the island’s west coast
