24 striking photos of international borders from around the world

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the border fence between the us and mexico stretches into the countryside near nogales arizona according to the atlantic the fences and roads that mark the border end at certain points before starting again a few miles away

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The border fence between US and Mexico, near Nogales, Arizona

There was a lot of discussion of the US border during Wednesday night's final presidential debate. While Republican nominee Donald Trump reiterated his plans to build a wall between the border of the US and Mexico, stating, "We have no country if we have no border," Hillary Clinton pressed back with her own plans for immigration reform.

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History, politics, and demographics have helped to shape the international borders that separate countries around the world.

Here, we've collected 24 photos of what borders between various countries across the world actually look like - from walls, to rivers, to barbed wire fences, to simple road markings.

Talia Avakian contributed reporting on a previous version of this article.