Tag: Territorial Changes
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The Saudi Arabia–Jordan Land Swap: How Jordan Traded Desert for Red Sea Coastline
That shape is not accidental. In 1965, Jordan and Saudi Arabia redrew their border in one of the Middle East’s lesser-known territorial exchanges. Jordan gave up more land than it received, but what it gained was arguably much more strategically valuable: additional coastline around Aqaba. A border inherited from an earlier era The frontier between…