NETHERLANDS BELGIUM Baarle-Nassau 2,000 Feet NETHERLANDS De Biergrens Baarle-Hertog Baarle-Hertog Brussels BELGIUM NETHERLANDS BELGIUM Baarle-Nassau 2,000 Feet De Biergrens NETHERLANDS Baarle-Hertog Baarle-Hertog Brussels BELGIUM BELGIUM Baarle-Nassau Baarle-Hertog NETHERLANDS 2,000 FeetConfused? Today, Baarle lies within the Netherlands, but it has 22 Belgian enclaves that, in turn, have seven Dutch enclaves within them. At De Biergrens beer shop, you can walk in from the Netherlands through one door and walk out into Belgium through another. There are even two cash registers, at opposite ends of the shop — one in each country. The intertwined halves of the town — formally, the Belgian parts are Baarle-Hertog and the Dutch parts Baarle-Nassau — have separate town halls, churches and fire departments, but they recently merged their police departments.

Source: New York Times August 08, 2016 09:00 UTC