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Boundary Lines of the World
A compact, tabular recall sheet of named international boundary lines worldwide grouped by region and conflict, with the countries each separates, complementing the main boundary-lines page, for CAPF geography
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One screen per section. Cover the right column and test yourself. Named boundary lines paired to the countries they separate are durable static facts. This sheet groups the lines by region and conflict for faster recall; the India-specific frontier lines and the longest-border table are in important boundary lines of the world.
| Line |
Between |
| Radcliffe Line |
India and Pakistan; India and Bangladesh |
| McMahon Line |
India and China (eastern sector) |
| Line of Control (LoC) |
India and Pakistan (Jammu and Kashmir) |
| Line of Actual Control (LAC) |
India and China (de facto) |
| Durand Line |
Pakistan and Afghanistan |
| Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) |
India and Pakistan (Siachen) |
| Line |
Note |
| Maginot Line |
French inter-war fortifications facing Germany |
| Siegfried Line |
Germany's western fortified frontier |
| Hindenburg Line |
German defensive line in France (First World War) |
| Oder-Neisse Line |
Germany and Poland (post-1945) |
| Mannerheim Line |
Finnish fortifications facing Russia |
| Curzon Line |
Proposed line between Poland and Russia (after the First World War) |
| Line |
Note |
| Green Line |
Israel and its neighbours (1949 armistice); also divides Cyprus |
| Blue Line |
Lebanon and Israel (UN-demarcated withdrawal line) |
| Purple Line |
Israel and Syria (Golan Heights) |
| 38th Parallel |
North Korea and South Korea |
| 17th Parallel |
Former North and South Vietnam |
| Line of Control (Kashmir) |
India and Pakistan |
| Line |
Between |
| 49th Parallel |
United States and Canada (much of the boundary) |
| 24th Parallel |
Claimed by Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch dispute |
| Mason-Dixon Line |
Historic northern and southern United States |
| International Date Line |
Roughly along 180° longitude |
| Equator |
Northern and Southern Hemispheres |
| Peg |
Recall |
| Drawn at Partition in 1947 |
Radcliffe Line |
| Disputed by Afghanistan |
Durand Line (1893) |
| Korea divider |
38th Parallel |
| Israel armistice line |
Green Line |
| US-Canada border |
49th Parallel |
| Rejected by China in the east |
McMahon Line |