Illustration: At a geography exhibit in a Japanese science museum, two children inspect a raised terrain model of neighboring France and Germany. Small French and German flags identify the respective territories without lettering.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

国こっ境きょう

kokkyou

national border

Example sentences

  1. 国境こっきょうでパスポートの提示ていじを求もとめられた。

    I was asked for my passport at the border.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 音楽おんがくに国境こっきょうなし。

    Music is universal.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼かれは国境こっきょうを越こえて行いった。

    He passed across the border.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 国境

  • 国countryOnコクKunくに
  • 境boundary; borderOnキョウ・ケイKunさかい

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