This is the Smallest Country Border in the World. Length of Only 85 Meters

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Every country has its own borders or boundaries. The existence of these boundaries is, of course, to divide the territory of one country from another.

The location of different regions makes the borders of each country different. Some extend in a straight line, like the border of Mexico and the United States; there are also state borders that are very small in size. Not a figment of the imagination, the unique country border can be found between Morocco and Spain. Named Penon de Velez de la Gomera, this border is the smallest in the world because it is only 85 meters long.

Located around the coast of Morocco, Penon de Velez de la Gomera is a small rock in North Africa that was conquered by Spain in 1564 under the leadership of Admiral Pedro de Estopiñán. Although Morocco had repeatedly claimed the territory, Spain never agreed to return the land and stationed troops there to enforce Spanish rule.

Penon de Velez de la Gomera is one of Spain's "sovereign places" in North Africa, along with Ceuta, Melilla, Peñón de Alhucemas, the Chafarinas Islands, and Isla de Perejil. Its legal status is that of a non-autonomous territory under Spanish rule.

Interestingly, this barren rock was an island until 1934, when an earthquake created a small isthmus and turned the island into a peninsula. This border is officially recognized as the most minor border in the world.

Today, Penon de Velez de la Gomera is inhabited by Spanish troops tasked with surveillance and defense. Interestingly, Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera was the last Spanish territory to experience an invasion by agents of a foreign power.

In 2012, seven people belonging to an organization known as the Coordinating Committee for the Liberation of Ceuta and Melilla sneaked onto a rock. They replaced the Spanish flag with the Moroccan flag.

The invasion lasted only a few minutes, as Spanish forces quickly took down the foreign country's flag and arrested the perpetrators, but technically, this counts as an actual invasion.