00:00If you have already looked at the map of Africa, you may have seen a country with one of the
00:04most
00:04farthest sides of the world. A band of land which is on a 480 km from the rest of its
00:09territory.
00:09Here is the Namibia, and there is a pretty amusing story behind this frontier.
00:13To understand it, it is to go up to 1890. At this time, the Germany had several colonies in Africa,
00:19like the Namibia. But the Germans quickly realized that they had an enormous problem.
00:23To get rid of this colony to the German Afri-Oriental Germany, they had to do a very long journey
00:27around the African continent.
00:28They realized that in simply access to the Zambes, the journey would be 100 times faster.
00:33The problem is that the only way to reach this fleuve was to pass by the British territory.
00:37And like the Germany could not simply invite the British, she had the idea of exchanging
00:41its island of Zanzibar against this land of land.
00:44What the Germans didn't have expected, it was that this fleuve, sent to their two colonies,
00:47was actually couped in two by the most big earthquake of the world, making the traverse totally impossible.
00:53The British, they knew it for years, and they accepted the exchange,
00:56well aware that this land would be totally useless to the Germans.
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