The beautiful European towns where residents live in two countries at once

Baarle-Nassau is home to over a dozen Belgian enclaves. (Image: Getty) Two lovely towns on the border between Belgium and The Netherlands are built so close together it is incredibly easy to be both countries at once. The Dutch town of Baarle-Nassau is home to several Belgian enclaves as there are over a dozen pieces of land that belong to its neighbour embedded into its territory.

The municipality in The Netherlands shares its fate, and half of its name, with its cross-border twin Baarle-Hertog in Belgium. The situation is the result of hundreds of years of land swaps and regional treaties that have resulted in the peculiar patchwork border arrangement. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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