In 1885, Finland built a lighthouse on Sweden’s side of an island; 100 years later, both countries bent the border around it

Imagine building a house and then discovering that half of it sits on your neighbour’s property, and that neighbour is another country. That is roughly what happened on Märket, a tiny 3.3-hectare island in the Baltic Sea divided between Sweden and Finland.

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