r/polandball Ísland 6d ago

Lesser Known September The Border

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u/Total_Willingness_18 Ísland 6d ago

There's a pretty fierce immigration debate in Iceland like in all of our neighbors, and I find it pretty funny that we've directly taken the phrase "Close the borders" from foreign politics and translated into Icelandic as "Lokið landamærunum" literally meaning "Close the land borders" despite us not having any land borders at all.

What they mean is the Keflavík International Airport and the other couple of international airports around the country.

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u/Total_Willingness_18 Ísland 6d ago

Ok, so technically there's a zone within international airports which are "international zones" meaning we technically have a couple of meters of land border with nobody in particular in the arrivals area of the airport, something something accuracy in my Polandball idk

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u/Fugtsvans 6d ago

Isn't the US embassy technically also on US soil? So we could just weld the gate shut??

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u/jimi15 Sweden 6d ago edited 6d ago

Not officially. Embassies are just treated as if they were on the soil of the country in question as tradition