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Point Roberts is a town in Washington state on a peninsula (both the town and the peninsula are called Point Roberts) South of Vancouver, BC, connected solely to Canada by land. Though Point Roberts only borders Canada by land, it is part of the US because it is South of the 49th parallel, the official latitude defining the Canada-US border from British Columbia (excluding Vancouver Island) to Lake of the Woods in Manitoba, Ontario, and Minnesota.


Boundary Bay borders Point Roberts on the East, and the Strait of Georgia borders it on the West. The tract of land is about 2 miles from North to South and about 3 miles from East to West. Boundary Bay's airport is actually in Canada.