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Point Roberts is a town in Whatcom County, Washington, United States. It is unusual in that, like the Northwest Angle, it is on a peninsula in US territory that is not connected to the US mainland. Though Point Roberts would appear to be part of Canada (which it borders), 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 the Lake of the Woods on the border between Manitoba, Ontario, and Minnesota.

Point Roberts assumed its present form in 1846, when the Oregon Treaty extended the 49th parallel as the boundary between the United States and British territory from the Rocky Mountains to Georgia Strait. The peninsula is attached to the municipality of DeltaDelta is a district municipality in British Columbia, Canada. Located south of Vancouver, on the United States border, at the mouth of the Fraser River. Population (2003 Estimate): 100,571 Demographics (according to Statistics Canada 2001 census) Growth R in British Columbia, and is about 2 miles from north to south and about 3 miles from east to west. Boundary Bay borders Point Roberts to the east, and the Strait of GeorgiaThe Strait of Georgia (also known as Georgia Strait and the Gulf of Georgia is a 240 km (150 mi)-long strait between Vancouver Island (as well as its nearby Gulf Islands) and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. The southern end of the borders it to the west.

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