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New Guinea is divided between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia by a perfectly straight line — except for a brief stretch where the border follows the Fly River. How and why did this happen? Has the arrangement caused or worsened ethnic tensions?

by /u/mikitacurve in /r/AskHistorians

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