Located between England and France are several islands which have a unique status in the international community.

They aren't part of any country, nor are they a territory of a country.

They share the same monarch as the United Kingdom but are not part of the Commonwealth.

Learn more about the Channel Islands, the Baileywick of Jersey and the Baileywick of Guernsey,

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. So, I previously did an episode and what seems like a really simple question but is

actually quite tricky. What is a country? If you look at a map of the world you'll see

most of the land divided up into different sections with lines around them that are

differently colored. These well-defined countries do in fact cover most of the earth, and these cases are pretty

cut and dry.

That bit is Mongolia, this bit is Namibia, and that tiny bit is Luxembourg.

While these countries do account for most of the world, they don't quite account for everything.

There are places that are edge cases.

They aren't full-fledged countries with a seat in the United Nations, but nor are they territories

of a country like Gibraltar Guam or Greenland.

Such is the case with the Channel Islands.

The Channel Islands are a collection of small islands located in the English Channel.

They sit just north of Normandy and are far closer to the French coast than they are to England.

If you looked at a map and didn't know any better, you would assume that they were part of France, but they're not.

The Channel Islands consists of two separate jurisdictions, the Baileywick of Jersey and the

bailiwick of Guernsey.

If you've ever heard of the American state of New Jersey and ever wondered where old Jersey

was, well, it's off the coast of France.

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