List of fortified boundaries

Fortified Borders World Map (August 2015)

This is a list of fortified borders that have been put in place to prevent illegal migration . These are political borders .

Modern

Europe

Blue: Western bloc, red: Eastern bloc, white: neutral or non-aligned states like Yugoslavia

Berlin Wall (1988)

In Europe there were fortified borders along the Iron Curtain mainly during the Cold War , and since the 1990s there has been increasing investment in fortifying borders to protect against illegal migration from the Global South .

Cold War period

• Inner German border (1949–1989) with the Berlin Wall
• Border fortifications of the ČSSR in the Cold War (1951–1989)
• Border fortifications between Hungary and the Republic of Austria during the Cold War (1951–1989)
• Hungarian-Yugoslav border (1951–1989)
• Romanian-Yugoslav border (1951-1989)
• Bulgarian-Yugoslav border
• Bulgarian-Greek border
• Bulgarian-Turkish border

Since the 1990s

Border facility near Melilla (2008)

• Border fence near Ceuta in Africa
• Border fence at Melilla
• Border fortifications of Greece ( to Turkey )
• Border in the north of the Crimea
• Ukrainian-Russian border (under construction)
• Border fence between Slovenia and Croatia
• Border fence to Serbia and Croatia in Hungary
• Border between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey
• Border fence of North Macedonia on part of the North Macedonian-Greek border (→ Gevgelija # refugee crisis )

Asia

• North / South Korea border
• Barrier around the Gaza Strip
• Barrier around the West Bank
• Kuwait / Iraq border
• Border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia
• Ani security fence (Turkey / Armenia border, no border fortifications in the strict sense, as the Aras and Arpaçay rivers form the border between the two countries)
• Border between Syria and Turkey
• Kazakh-Uzbek border
• Iranian-Afghan border
• Iranian-Azerbaijani border
• Iranian-Pakistani border
• India / Bangladesh border
• India / Kashmir border
• United Arab Emirates / Oman border
• Uzbekistan / Afghanistan border
• Border between the People's Republic of China and the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions
• Border between Israel and Egypt ( Sinai Peninsula )
• Border between Israel and Jordan
• Border between Israel and Lebanon
• Border between Israel and Syria
• Cyprus / Northern Cyprus (United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus), partially mined, length 180.5 kilometers

Africa

• Moroccan Wall in Western Sahara
• Border between Botswana and Zimbabwe
• Border between South Africa and Mozambique
• Border between South Africa and Zimbabwe

America

• Border between Ecuador and Peru
• Border between the United States and Mexico

Historical

• Antonine Wall
• Bokerley Dyke
• Great Wall of China
• Danewerk
• Dreigräben
• Grim's Ditch
• Hadrian's Wall
• Constance border fence
• limes
• Offa's Dyke
• Wansdyke
• Wat's Dyke

Web links

Commons : Boundary Barriers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ annexed peninsula: border fence built in the Crimea. Retrieved December 29, 2018 . 
2. ↑ from 2010 to 2012, well over a thousand refugees came to Israel from Egypt every month; then Israel put up a fence. In 2014, 44 new refugees came from Egypt to Israel, in 2015 there were 168. (Source: zeit.de February 18, 2016 / Yarden Skop: Knast or Ausreise )