Editing Border (section)

=== Political borders ===
Political borders are imposed on the world through human agency.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Robinson |first=Edward Heath |url=http://www.edwardheath.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Reexamining_boundaries.pdf |title=Reexamining Fiat, Bona Fide and Force Dynamic Boundaries for Geopolitical Entities and their Placement in DOLCE |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230235301/http://www.edwardheath.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Reexamining_boundaries.pdf |archive-date=30 December 2013 |journal=[[Applied Ontology]] |date=2012 |volume=7 |pages=93–108|doi=10.3233/AO-2012-0103 }}</ref> That means that although a political border may follow a river or mountain range, such a feature does not automatically define the political border, even though it may be a major physical barrier to crossing.

Political borders are often classified by whether or not they follow conspicuous physical features on the earth. William Miles said that Britain and France traced close to 40% of the entire length of the world's international boundaries.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Miles |first1=William F. S. |title=Scars of Partition: Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands |date=2014 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-6771-8 |page=3 |quote=Anglo-French carving of colonial space is a significant geographical legacy: nearly 40 percent of the entire length of today's international boundaries were traced by Britain and France.}}</ref>