It is not even curved.
Instead, there are 26 separate pieces of land little bits of Belgium and Netherlands scattered around Baarle.
One line enters a block via a gift shop then comes out of the back of a supermarket.
The towns attract a lot of tourists.
There was a time when according to Dutch laws restaurants had to close earlier.
With the coming of the European Union, however, some of those differences disappeared.
It took three border commissions to sort out the issues.
The last one fixed a 36 km stretch and was completed only recently in 1995.
