A US border guard on duty near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, last month © Bloomberg |
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- India-Pakistan: India built a barrier of almost 750km on the de facto border along the 1947 Line of Control, to keep out Pakistani militants
- India-Bangladesh (formerly East Bengal): India has also since 1947 surrounded Bangladesh with a 2,700km barbed-wire fence aimed at curbing immigration and smuggling.
- North and South Korea: the most heavily militarised border in the world was drawn between North and South Korea in 1953. Razor wire, sensors, landmines and heavy weapons cover the Demilitarised Zone stretching 250km.
- Cyprus: a wall splits the island and capital Nicosia between Turkish and Greek Cypriot halves, dating back to Turkey’s invasion in 1974.
- Western Sahara: a 2,700km sand wall, in place since the early 1980s, has been built between the 80 per cent of territory under Moroccan control and zones under Polisario rebels, fighting for control of Western Sahara since the 1970s.
- Spain-Morocco: Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla, on the North African coast and Africa’s only land borders with Europe, have been protected since 1995 by high-tech border fences, each 10km long.
- Israel-West Bank: Israel began its 712km security barrier edging the West Bank in 2002, saying it would stop attacks by Palestinian insurgents. Critics say it has been used to seize land and establish a de facto border, breaching international law.
- Greece: In 2012 Athens built an 11km barbed wire fence along its river border with Turkey.
- Saudi Arabia-Iraq: responding to the rise of Isis, the Saudis in 2014 added to an existing 7m-high sand embankment on the Iraqi border with a 900km fence and electronic surveillance system.
- Bulgaria: in 2014 it started a razorwire barrier along part of its border with Turkey, to block migrants. The barrier is 176km long.
- Hungary: It built a 175km, 4m-high fence along its border with Serbia in September 2016, followed in October by another along its border with Croatia. This year, Hungary has begun building a second fence on its border with Serbia to stop migrants. Other countries to put up barriers to thwart migrants, include:
- Slovenia with Croatia,
- Austria with Slovenia and
- Macedonia with Greece.
- France: a 1km “anti-intrusion” wall was built in late 2016 to block access to Calais for migrants trying to cross the Channel to Britain.