The Border Change Kept Secret For 10 Years

Some are asking how the neutral area was divided. The map at 3:32 was the new border after 1981.

they just didn't know where to file the "we have a new border" papers to the UN

I am an Iraqi, and this is my first time hearing of this lol

And here I thought secret border changes couldn't be a thing anymore, this'll be interesting to watch

Imagine if the officials of both sides just simply forgot to register it, assuming the other already did so anyway.😅

Afaik, Bir Tawil is NOT a neutral zone, but unclaimed land. None of the two nations accepts it's theirs because it would mean they reject any claim to another piece of land that is of a much higher value. Therefore, it's not neutral land. It's Terra Nullius

Speaking of outdated maps in school, in 2008, I got a globe from the school's principal as a gift, and it's from the 1980's, a true relic. In it there is the neutral territory on Kuwait-Saudi Arabia border, but not the other one.

It is better to solve a territory dispute by negotiation than through war

I had the same questions about the Iraqi-Saudi neutral zone when i was a kid in the early 2000s. Thanks!

My first globe was a Christmas present when I was 7 in 1975. It had North and South Vietnam, already out of date.

I have a globe made in the brief period where Germany was reunited but still had 2 capitals which also has the USSR on it.

We still have maps in some Saskatchewan schools that are from the 1970s

International lawyer here! They didn't register it because they opposed the concept of the UN having a final say in the borders of middle eastern states--their position was that there was no requirement for UN knowledge to delineate or arbitrate disputes between Muslim nations, and wanted to demonstrate that by cutting the UN out of their negotiations and resolution altogether :)

This is why you always fill out your Warranty Registration Card and mail it into the UN when you get a new border.

What happened to the Bedouins who crossed the Iraqi-Saudi Arabian border, who the neutral zone was originally made for?

6:10 There is also technically a neutral zone between Gibraltar and Spain as well. It's actually a really interesting topic because the British decided to build an airport in this neutral zone which upset the Spanish. Definitely something that I think is worth making a video on.

I have a map at my home with the occupation zones of Germany from the ‘40s. These kinds of videos are amazing. Keep up the good work!

My Secondary School map book for geography class in the 1980's got this too, always mystified me back then because newspapers never mentioned it.

The Neutral Zone was one of the biggest mysteries of my childhood I totally forgot about

Minor correction: Oman wasn't really a protectorate, their relationship with Britain was more like an unequal alliance. Oman's status as a soveriegn state remained intact, but Britain sort of served as Oman's middleman to the rest of the world. great video regardless, the Middle East has a lot of curious border anomalies in its history, one you may be interested in looking into is the Buraimi Oasis, which was a condominium between Oman and Abu Dhabi for decades, as well as subject to some claims from Saudi Arabia early on.