dear fellow seekers following in a single comprehensive & politically correct alphabetical listing are the current 173 sovereign territorial boundary trijunctions of the world comprising mostly simple tripoints be they continental or maritime & whether definite or hypothetical but also embracing a few trilines & triareas where sovereign territories overlap in condominiums the 6character abbreviations simply combine iso country digraphs http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-3166-1_decoding_table & suffixes of e&w or n&s distinguish the 10 pairs of twin tripoints by their directional relationship thus for example the first item below is the eastern tripoint of andorra etc adesfre adesfrw aeqasa aeomsa afcnpk afcntj afirpk afirtm aftjuz aftmuz 10 algrmk almers almkrs amazge amazire amazirw amaztr amgetr aocdcg aocdzm 20 aonazm arbocl arbopy arbrpy arbruy atchde atchit atchlin atchlis atczde 30 atczsk athusi athusk atitsi azgeru azirtr bahrme bahrrs bamers bdinmm 40 bedelu bedenl befrlu bfbjne bfbjtg bfcigh bfciml bfghtg bfmlne bggrmk 50 bggrtr bgmkrs bgrors bhqasa bicdrw bicdtz birwtz bjneng bobrpe bobrpy 60 boclpe brcope brcove brfrsr brgysr brgyve btcnine btcninw bwnaza bwnazm 70 bwzazw bwzmzw byltlv byltpl bylvru byplua byruua bzgthn bzgtmx cdcfcg 80 cdcfsd cdrwug cdsdug cdtzzm cfcgcm cfcmtd cfsdtd cgcmga chdefr chfrit 90 cignlr cignml cmgagq cmngtd cninmm cninnpe cninnpw cninpk cnkgkz cnkgtj 100 cnkpru cnkzru cnlamm cnlavn cnmnrue cnmnruw coecpe czdepl czplsk defrlu 110 djeret djerye djetso dzlyne dzlytn dzmamr dzmlmr dzmlne eelvru egiljo 120 egjosa eglysd eretsd etkesd etkeso finoru finose gngwsn gnlrsl gnmlsn 130 gthnsv hnnisve hnnisvw hrhurs hrhusi hritsi hurors huroua huskua idmysge 140 idmysgw iljosy illbsy iqirtr iqjosa iqjosy iqkwsa iqsytr kesdug ketzug 150 kgkzuz kgtjuz khlath khlavn kztmuz lammth ltplru lynetd lysdtd mdrouan 160 mdrouas mlmrsn mwmztz mwmzzm mwtzzm mzszzan mzszzas mzzazw mzzmzw nengtd 170 omsaye plskua rwtzug 173 for additional data on any individual tripoint simply enter its above name as a search term at http://search.gmane.org/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boundarypointpoint/ & or i would gladly try to help with any questions you may have about anything multiple expect changes from this original compilation when new countries are admitted to the general assembly or in the event of political unions of existing members or judicial decisions affecting boundaries etc additions corrections suggestions applications etc also most welcome til the next redaction many smiles ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping