stackyFACTSDue to centuries of stubborn colonial history, Spain still owns Ceuta and Melilla, two small cities attached to the northern coast of Morocco. This creates the only physical land border between Europe and Africa, mostly serving as a bizarre geographical anomaly protected by massively intimidating border fences.
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