The border between France and Belgium was recently redrawn, but not due to a political dispute. A farmer moved a stone off his land and, in doing so, inadvertently made Belgium slightly bigger.

When it comes to redrawing nations’ borders, scores of diplomats can spend years painstakingly hashing out every inch of the dividing line.For the border between France and Belgium to be redrawn ...

The farmer who moved the stone, which has been in place since the 1820 Treaty Of Kortrijk set the border’s placement following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, hasn’t provided comment on when ...

The stone dates back to 1819, before the boundary between Belgium and France was officially established in the Treaty of Kortrijk. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

The stone markers, each believed to weigh between 300 and 600 pounds, were laid when the 390-mile border between France and what is now Belgium was established under the 1820 Treaty of Kortrijk.