Tracing boundaries: canton Geneva's land borders with the rest of Switzerland add up to a mere 4.4 km. Its land borders with France for a total of 103 km. Official checkpoints aside, how are they are marked?

Swiss NewsNbr. 2004, May 2004

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Tracing boundaries: canton Geneva's land borders with the rest of Switzerland add up to a mere 4.4 km. Its land borders with France for a total of 103 km. Official checkpoints aside, how are they are marked?

When I first came across the border markers called 'bornes' while walking in Geneva's forests, along its many small rivers, in fields and vineyards, I thought they were historical relics, old stones left there and forgotten, tracing parameters long superseded by new territorial definitions.

Never did thoughts of how Geneva's present-day frontiers with France were delineated, much less marked, cross my mind. There were a few checkpoints here and there, and I knew not what in between. It was pleasant to ...

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