why do countries have border lines?
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because each country has its own rules and laws and its own way of running things, like different types of governments. Democracy, Republic, Dictatorship and so on. Also because some countries arent open to the public (they don't want people coming in or maybe going out) in the long run there are many reasons
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Outsourcing is not 100% bad.  It is natural.  \n\nIf a country can't compete and technology is available to do the work better and cheaper somewhere else, why should your government prevent you from taking advantage of that???\n\nNational borders are a bunch of crap and should be a relic of the 20th century.  The world should be without borders of any kind.
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Because we have countries that do not respect laws and think that their way of life enables them to kill anyone in the name of religion.  This is a way to restrict their travel.
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What kind of country do you want to live in, exactly? I want one that's got good borders, because that's where a lot of the problems come from, in my view.
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youre both right.  the boundary is the line you want to draw.  then shade the up or down side.
615762
It flows along the border.
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domestic occurs within the borders of a specific country.  International occurs between different countries
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It was COUNTROS - Lord of imaginary borders!!!   Actually, countries arose naturally out of the territorial nature of mankind. Individual caves belonged to individual cavemen, separate hills and plains belonged to separate groups of men and women, separate kingdoms controlled separate regions, and so on... Nothing was ever established to begin it all, it was simply accepted because everyone throughout our history divided the lands more and more.   I think that countries should exist, to break governing responsibilities down further than one man to rule all, but countries should never rival each other. Additionally, different countries have generated different civilizations, and with them different values, lifestyles, artforms, and countless different ways to view life itself.
321128
This is a great question.. just as why is the U.S. considered to be racist for wanting to implement better border control that will only help to disable terrorists. While most of Europe has extremely tough border control and no one thinks anything of it?.. Basically, every country wants to be the U.S. and every person wants to be in the U.S. so expect criticism from both. It's the same reason you see a hot girl and say to yourself.. 'what is she doing with that douche bag?'
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Well, think about your question... What's on the other side of every other border you know?  Another room, another zone, another country, another place of some kind.  Borders are edges, but they're edges that divide things.  Although it's kind of cool to think "what if there's a border to space!" then you've also got to think "so what's on the other side of the border - and does THAT place go on forever, or maybe it has a border, too."  And what's on the other side of that border?  So space, in some form, is going to go on and on and on. \n We can see almost 15 billion light years with some of our most powerful telescopes, and in all that huge distance there is absolutely nothing that looks like a border - it all looks infinite. Some scientists say maybe space is curved - but the curvature they're talking about is a curve with no border.  Wierd, eh?  That's why I like science - there are some very strange ideas turn out to be true.
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Border states are the states that border other countries as in Texas bordering Mexico or Maine bordering Canada\n\nI think..not positive but I think its also the states bordering the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well. Someone may have a more positive answer on that.\n\nAnswered my own question, no it doesn't include the oceans...the link below provides a map
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everyone should be allowed here. borders are for governments not peiple.
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Different countries have claims on settlements there but no one actually owns/governs it.\nLooks like Australia, Chile, Argentina, UK, France and New Zealand claim to own sections of it.
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Because this country just can't seem to keep it's nose out of other countries affairs .  It thinks every other country should be just like it. Not all countries want to be like the U.s and the sooner the USA realizes that the better
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They border each other, so you cannot give a distance in miles, depends on how wide the border is I guess.
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I think what you mean is, if we had to draw lines differentiating the different oceans and bodies of water, where would we draw these lines? \n\nUnfortunately, I dont think there is any real correct answer.\nThese boundaries are kind of ambiguous and flowing....just like the oceans themselvess! Oceans aren't like countries, which have set boundaries established by wars and treaties, etc. Oceans flow into each other and are all connected. The best we can do is approximate. \n\nGood question, though.
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How far out to sea does a country's borders extend.\nAre maritime borders a different thing altogether?\nJeez I cant answer, only ask more!\n\nThe answer above is so true Dubai is amazing, weird but amazing. \nA case of too much money, not enough sense.\n\nEDIT:\nI've been doing some reading and borders extend 12 miles out, hence the 12 miles in your question.\nMy answer to your question would be, it could be their territory but they would not have absolute control over it.\n\nIt is very interesting reading however, I copied the exerpt below:\n\nA coastal nation has total control over its internal waters, slightly less control over territorial waters, ostensibly even less control over waters within the contiguous zone, and supposedly no control whatsoever over an ocean beyond them (although it also has some rights concerning resources within its exclusive economic zone).\nMore at:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters