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I am preparing to bring my Ukrainian family from Ukraine into Poland. This "How to cross the Ukraine-Poland border by car?" site has a lot of useful information, but I don't understand one bullet in the 'required documents' section that says the driver will need "certificate of registration of TK". Please, what is this? Hayttom (talk) 05:32, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
In Ukrainian, that line reads "свідоцтво про реєстрацію ТЗ",[1] which Google translates as "vehicle registration certificate". "ТЗ" is an abbreviation of "транспортний засіб", which simply means "vehicle". I have no theory how it became garbled to "TK". --Lambiam09:03, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think Slovak "TK" stands for "Technickej Kontroly", meaning "technical inspection", the equivalent of the UK's MOT test. It is anybody's guess if this somehow contributed to the confusing translation of Ukranian "ТЗ". This is a page on the website of the Polish government; the requirement they state is documents confirming vehicle approval for traffic – a document which confirms admission of the vehicle to the traffic is a registration or a temporary permission. "Approval for traffic" would seem to require roadworthiness. --Lambiam22:57, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Countries with non-continuous borders with other countries
Ukraine has two borders with Romania, separated by its border with Moldova. Is there a list of countries that have non-continuous borders with other countries? -- Jack of Oz[pleasantries]23:01, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I guess one could be cobbled together from other lists:
Russia and Lithuania should come off the list; it only borders Lithuania at the Kaliningrad exclave. There is no other border with Russia and Lithuania. --Jayron3212:14, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Germany and Belgium west of the Vennbahn. At the peace of Versailles, the railway (now closed) was ceded to Belgium and parts of Germany west of the railway became enclaves surrounded by Belgian territory.
On the other hand, some borders are discontinuous only if you count maritime borders; Greece and Turkey, for example, with segments of maritime border separated by areas of international waters.
From a Russian point of view, Moldova and Ukraine, with some segments of border separated by the Transnistria puppet state.
Moldova appears to have some exclaves in Transnistria, so the border between those is discontinuous too. But then, Moldova doesn't recognise that border.
Also from a Russian point of view, Ukraine and Russia, with multiple segments of border separated by the Donetsk and Luhansk puppet states and the possibly international waters of the Sea of Azov.
Similarly, Russia and Georgia, which have two segments of border on opposite sides of the South Ossetia puppet state.
Some pairs of countries, like Croatia and Serbia, have border disputes, so that some lands along the border are claimed by both, others by neither. Both claim that the effective pieces of no man's land belong to the other, making the border continuous, but if you see them as no man's land (or create your own private little micronation there), it is a discontinuous border. Such border disputes are fairly common.
I'm sure you can find more.
So, some cases are clear, but there are a bit too many questionable cases to make a clear list of this.
Egypt on that list doesn't include Bir Tawil, the biggest "no-man's land" or "terra nullius" between two countries (well-known to micronation enthusiasts). AnonMoos (talk) 21:57, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]