Winston's Hiccup
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Winston's Hiccup or Churchill's Sneeze is the huge zigzag in Jordan's eastern border with Saudi Arabia, supposedly because Winston Churchill drew the boundary of Transjordan after a generous and lengthy lunch.
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[edit] In modern times
In the modern era, Jordan's boundaries with Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia do not generally hamper tribal nomads in their movements, although for a few tribes, the borders do technically separate them from traditional grazing areas. Conversely, the border between Jordan and Israel is governed more heavily. Officially, the borders were set by a series of agreements between the United Kingdom and the government of what eventually became Saudi Arabia, first formally defined in the Hadda Agreement of 1925.[1] In 1965 Jordan and Saudi Arabia concluded a bilateral agreement that realigned and defined the boundary.[2] The realignment resulted in some exchange of territory, and Jordan's coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba was lengthened by about eighteen kilometers.
