A border checkpoint is a location on an international border where travelers or goods are inspected and allowed (or denied) passage through. Authorization often is required to enter a country through its borders. Access-controlled borders often have a limited number of checkpoints where they can be crossed without legal sanctions. Arrangements or treaties may be formed to allow or mandate less restrained crossings (e.g. the Schengen Agreement ). Land border checkpoints (land ports of entry) can be contrasted with the customs and immigration facilities at seaports , international airports , and other ports of entry .
4-768: Telle Bridge , also spelled as Tele Bridge , is a border post located between South Africa and Lesotho . The actual steel motorbridge spans the Telle River , a tributary of the Orange River that flows across half of South Africa. The anti-apartheid South African journalist and editor of the Daily Dispatch , Donald Woods entered Lesotho through the Telle Bridge as he was fleeing from South Africa on New Year's Eve, 1977. Border post Checkpoints generally serve two purposes: Checkpoints are usually staffed by
8-435: A uniformed service (sometimes referred to as customs service or border patrol agents ). In some countries (e.g. China) there are border checkpoints for both those entering and those exiting the country, while in others (e.g. U.S. and Canada), there are border checkpoints only when entering the country. (There are also United States Border Patrol interior checkpoints .) The Schengen Borders Code , which forms part of
12-566: Is a list of the busiest airports in the world, by international passenger traffic, as of 2018. Airports serving international passengers are effectively checkpoints, and have the proper customs, immigration and quarantine facilities. Airports Council International 's (January–December) preliminary figures are as follows. This is a list of the busiest seaports in the world, with proper customs, immigration and quarantine facilities to be deemed as maritime checkpoints . Although figures simply represent total passenger traffic, most (if not, all) of
16-711: The law of the European Union , defines some terms as follows (particularities with respect to the EU are left out, in order to emphasize general usability of those definitions): These definitions mean that a place where a road crosses an internal Schengen border is legally not a "border crossing point". This is a list of the busiest land border checkpoints in the world, handling more than 35 million travelers in both directions annually. These travelers (or individual crossings) comprise pedestrians, drivers and vehicle passengers. International border checkpoints are in green. Notes: This
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