r/Borderporn

2nd picture: Lauterbourg station with a German and a French train

Since Slovenia-Italy border and a lot of its particularities are posted pretty much weekly here, here is something different!

For about half of its 50km length small river Judrio(italian)/Idrija(slovene) acts as a border separating the two countries in the sparsely populated prealpine world of Benetia/Benečija. The river really only really gets alive in the summer when locals use its clean water to refresh in one of the many natural pools. Right bank (left on the picture) is Italy and the left bank is Slovenia.

While most of the present Slovenia-Italy-Croatia border changed multiple times in 20th century, this river was set as a border between then Austro-Hungarian empire and Italy back in 1866 with the Treaty of Vienna and remained so ever since.

I went there 2 month ago and didn't know about this /s

This was on the way to go to Betong, I searched for a road being very close to Malaysia and I found that. There was a walking path into Malaysia but I was scared to go too deep as I was smoking weed and it's totally illegal in Malaysia ( I have my prescription in thailand for it )

International border between Thailand and Malaysia along Sri Mongkol Road in Padang Besa, Sadao District, Songkhla Province, Thailand. Behind the fence is Padang Besar, Perlis, Malaysia.
Coordinate: 6°39'55.3"N 100°19'15.2"E.
Time: July 10, 2026.

Source: Twitter.

Taken from Germany looking into Austria. The colour change in the road marks the border, the house is built against the border.

Estonia, Narva.

Russia, Ivangorod.

Visited today whilst staying in the area. as a history nerd, the exhibition below the station about the border between Yugoslavia and Italy was really interesting.

Quite soon after the town of Gorizia/Gorica was divided by the treaty of Paris in 1947, locals were given visas that allowed them to cross the border. this allowed for the communities to stay connected despite the political divide. A wire fence and wall was also built through the middle of the square, the station and industrial parts of the town belonging to Yugoslavia whilst the historic centre of the town belonged to Italy. This wall remained in place until 2004 when it was remained after Slovenia joined the EU. However, people crossing the border in the square still had to return to the country they had come from and cross the border at an official crossing 100m south until Slovenia joined the Schengen zone in 2007, allowing freedom of movement between the countries. In 2020, during the COVID-19 a fence was erected in the square, prevent people from crossing the border entirely. These travel restrictions, which were imposed throughout Europe and the Schengen Zone were arguably more limiting than the ones from the Cold War as not even people living in the former 10 kilometre “buffer zone” could cross.