Bizarre Border Towns: Where One Street is in Two Countries

Time of India

10-08-2025

You'll be surprised to know that there are some countries in the world that share a street! Borders are basically markings of the land between two countries, but what happens when you have a common street? In these unique areas, locals are constantly juggling between two countries, where moving across the street takes you to another country.
From North America and Europe to Asia, these remarkable border communities blend culture, law, and geography in ways rarely seen elsewhere, revealing how human settlement can transcend rigid political lines.
Let's take a look at some border towns that share a street:
Beebe Plain / Derby Line (United States and Canada)
Beebe Plain is a village that is distributed amongst Derby, Vermont, United States, and Stanstead, Quebec, Canada. The international border runs along the middle of the main street called Canusa Street, which places homes, properties, and buildings on both sides of the border.
A famous example of these places being on both sides is the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, built deliberately straddling the border, opened in 1904 to serve citizens of both nations.
People from both sides can visit both of these buildings without undergoing customs and border procedures, but it is important that they exit from the same side from which they entered.
Baarle-Hertog / Baarle-Nassau (Belgium and Netherlands)
This is a town complex that is located on both the borders between Belgium and the Netherlands.
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This is very complicated with the presence of multiple enclaves and counter-enclaves, creating a patchwork of Belgian territory inside the Netherlands and Dutch territory inside those Belgian enclaves. As the border runs through the town, it crosses buildings, streets, and shops, which means houses may have one room in Belgium and another in the Netherlands.
Some buildings have two different house numbers—one Belgian and one Dutch—depending on which side of the border a door faces.
Dinxperlo (Netherlands) and Suderwick (Germany)
Dinxperlo is a town located in the Dutch province of Gelderland. The international border between the Netherlands and Germany runs directly through the center of the main street called Heelweg (Dutch: Heelweg; German: Suderwicker), dividing the two towns. As the border runs in the middle of the street, it means that one sidewalk is in the Netherlands called Dinxperlo, while the opposite sidewalk is in Germany called Suderwick.
The both sides even spoke the same dialect which is a variety of Low Saxon.
Lungwa (Longwa) – A Unique India-Myanmar Border Village
Lungwa is a unique village located in the Mon District of Nagaland state in Northeast India and the Naga Self-Administered Zone in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. This village has a border running through it, which means that it falls on both sides – India and Myanmar. One of the most remarkable features of Lungwa is the house of the village chief, the Lungwa Angh or Longwa Angh, whose residence is built such that one half of the house lies in Indian territory and the other half lies in Myanmar.
This village is mainly governed by the tribes rather than the government authorities.
Cieszyn (Poland) and Český Těšín (Czech Republic)
This town is divided by the Olza River passing in between. After World War I, the town was divided as part of new interwar borders, separating urban and civic infrastructure such as the railway station, waterworks, and gasworks into different countries. Cieszyn is a town on the Polish side of the border, while Český Těšín is its Czech counterpart. Even though both of the towns are operated by independent entities, they share historical and cultural ties and also cooperate for economic and social activities.