Proper noun
(fiction) An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Syldavia, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.
(by extension) A generic name of a fictional country, generally contrasted with a rival counterpart Syldavia.
Borduria
A village in Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Borduria
A village in Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Hergé, talking to Numa Sadoul Sadoul 1975 Farr 2001, p. 82. Hergé designed Borduria as a satirical depiction of Nazi Germany. Source: Internet
Instead, a paper by Richardson entitled "Generalized Foreign Politics: A Story in Group Psychology" was published in The British Journal of Psychology Monograph Supplements in 1939, but did not mention Syldavia or Borduria. Source: Internet
With the aid of Thomson and Thompson, who have recently arrived in Syldavia, Tintin pursues the thieves, and is able to prevent the sceptre being carried over the border into neighbouring Borduria. Source: Internet