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2026-07-15 10:43 UTC

๐Ÿšจ Some breaking #geoweirdness border dispute news ๐Ÿšจ Last night at midnight local time the last frontier fence in western Europe - between Gibraltar ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง and Spain ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ - was removed! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/15/spain-gibraltar-celebrate-deal-signed-border-controls-uk-territory

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  • @opencage@en.osm.town 2026-07-15 10:52

    2/ if that is your thing you may enjoy our #geoweirdness threads about โ€ข ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง British overseas territories https://en.osm.town/@opencage/110288036094504869 โ€ข ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain https://en.osm.town/@opencage/110564980461467818 both of which are of course linked from the full list over on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads

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  • @phl@mastodon.social 2026-07-15 13:15

    @opencage@en.osm.town It's so weird that the border fence was still in place during UK's EU era...

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  • @edavies@functional.cafe 2026-07-15 15:07

    @opencage@en.osm.town What that Guardian article doesn't make clear is whether Gibraltar is now in the Schengen zone or not. I heard there was some discussion of it joining (despite not being in the EU, as with a few other countries such as Norway and Iceland). I.e., does time spent in Gibraltar count against 90/180 days rule for non-EU citizens?

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