quadripoint
Sign in to saveA quadripoint is a point on Earth where four distinct political territories meet. The territories can be of different types, such as national and provincial. In North America, several such places are commonly known as Four Corners. Several examples exist throughout the world that use other names.
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- Usage
- History
- Four-nation quadripoints
- Botswana–Namibia–Zambia–Zimbabwe
- Cameroon–Chad–Nigeria–United Kingdom
- Quadripoints within and between nations
- Algeria–Mali–Mauritania
- Argentina
- Austria–Germany
- Bangladesh–India
- Belgium–Netherlands
- Benin–Burkina Faso
- Canada
- Canada–United States
- Colombia
- Croatia
- Croatia–Hungary–Serbia
- Dominican Republic–Haiti
- Gabon
- Hungary–Slovakia
- Iraq–Saudi Arabia
- Jamaica
- Kazakhstan–Russia
- Kenya
- Lithuania–Poland–Russia
- Mauritania
- Norway–Sweden
- Oman–Saudi Arabia–Yemen
- Poland–Slovakia
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Void or dispute-pendant quadripoints
- Multipoints of greater numerical complexity
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
A quadripoint is a point on Earth where four distinct political territories meet. The territories can be of different types, such as national and provincial. In North America, several such places are commonly known as Four Corners. Several examples exist throughout the world that use other names.
==Usage== The word quadripoint does not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary or Merriam-Webster Online, though it has been used since 1964 by the Office of the Geographer of the United States Department of State, and appears in the Encyclopædia Britannica, as well as in the World Factbook articles on Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, dating as far back as 1990.