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TIL: Llívia, a Spanish town with 1,511 residents, is entirely surrounded by France. This unique status stems from the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, which ceded 33 villages in the Cerdanya region to France. However, Llívia was classified as a ‘town’ rather than a ‘village’ leaving it as part of Spain.

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