This is the list of the

Border Guard A border guard of a country is a national security agency that performs border security. Some of the national border guard agencies also perform coast guard (as in Federal Police (Germany), Germany, Guardia di Finanza, Italy or State Border Gua ...

agencies in different countries. Such agencies may also be known as ''Border Patrol'', ''Border Police'', ''Border Troops'', ''Frontier Guard'' or ''Frontier Police''.

Asia

Bangladesh

Border Guard Bangladesh Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) are a paramilitary force responsible for the border security of Bangladesh. The force is known as "The Vigilant Sentinels of the National Frontier". The BGB is entrusted with the responsibility to defend the borde ...

- Primary Border Security Force *

Bangladesh Customs Bangladesh Customs is the principal customs agency of Bangladesh. History Bangladesh Customs was formed under the National Board of Revenue in 1972 after the Independence of Bangladesh through the Customs Act. In 2016 Bangladesh Customs joined O ...

People's Republic of China

General Administration of Customs The General Administration of Customs (GAC; ) is a ministry-level administrative agency within the government of the People's Republic of China. It is responsible for the collection of value added tax (VAT), customs duties, excise duties, and oth ...

- Primary customs and excise agency. * Ministry of Public Security **

National Immigration Administration National Immigration Administration (NIA; ), also known as the Exit and Entry Administration of the People's Republic of China () for regional border control between Mainland China and Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan Area, is a sub-ministry level ...

China Immigration Inspection China Immigration Inspection (Abbreviation: CII; ) is the government agency responsible for controlling the sea, air and land border checkpoints of the People's Republic of China. It is a child agency of the National Immigration Administration (N ...

(CII) *

People's Armed Police ) , abbreviation = PAP ("People's Armed Police") CAPF ("Chinese Armed Police Force"), formerly abbreviated''Wujing'' ( zh , s = 武警 , p = Wǔjǐng , l = Armed Police , labels = no ), or WJ as on vehicle license plates , patch ...

- Border patrol and control functions in remote regions.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Immigration Department The Immigration Department of the Government of Hong Kong is responsible for immigration control of Hong Kong. After the People's Republic of China assumed sovereignty of the territory in July 1997, Hong Kong's immigration system remained la ...

* Hong Kong Customs & Excise

India

Border Security Force The Border Security Force (BSF) is India's border guarding organisation on its border with Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is one of the seven Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) of India, and was raised in the wake of the 1965 war on 1 December 1 ...

– 245,000 personnel on the Pakistan and Bangladesh Border *

Indo-Tibetan Border Police The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is a border patrol organization of India deployed along its borders with Tibet Autonomous Region. It is one of the seven Central Armed Police Forces, established in 1962 in the aftermath of the Sino-Indian ...

– 77,000 personnel *

Rashtriya Rifles The Rashtriya Rifles (RR; ) is a counter-insurgency force in India, formed in 1990, to specifically serve in the Jammu and Kashmir region. They also maintain public order by drawing powers from the Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Po ...

– 40,000 personnel in

Kashmir Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...

Special Frontier Force The Special Frontier Force (SFF) is an Indian special operations unit created on 14 November 1962. It mainly comprised Tibetan refugees living in India. Now it has increased in size and scope of operations. Its primary goal originally was to ...

– 10,000 personnel primarily used for conducting clandestine intelligence gathering and commando operations along the India Chinese border. Officially constrained from operating within 10 km of the international border *

Assam Rifles The Assam Rifles (AR) is a central paramilitary force responsible for border security, counter-insurgency, and maintaining law and order in Northeast India. It guards the Indo-Myanmar border. The Assam rifles is the oldest paramilitary force ...

– 50,000 personnel organised into 46 battalions, an internal security force with secondary duties along the eastern borders. *

Sashastra Seema Bal Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB; ) is a border guarding force of India deployed along its borders with Nepal and Bhutan. It is one of the seven Central Armed Police Forces under the administrative control of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The fo ...

(SSB) – 82,000 personnel on the Bhutan and Nepal borders *

Indian Coast Guard The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is a maritime law enforcement and search and rescue agency of India with jurisdiction over its territorial waters including its contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone. The Indian Coast Guard was formally esta ...

(तटरक्षक) – a specialized maritime force under India's Ministry of Defence dedicated to protecting the sea borders.

Indonesia

Customs Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country. Traditionally, customs ...

- oversee traffic of goods. *

Immigration Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

- oversee traffic of people. * Land Border : Border Patrol Task Force ( abbreviated ''Satgas Pamtas''), which consist of Infantry battalions from the

Indonesian Army The Indonesian Army ( id, Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Darat (TNI-AD), ) is the land branch of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. It has an estimated strength of 300,000 active personnel. The history of the Indonesian Army has its ...

. * Sea Border : Maritime Security Agency,

Navy A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral zone, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and ...

, Sea and Coast Guard,

Maritime Police Water police, also called harbor patrols, port police, marine/maritime police, nautical patrols, bay constables, river police, or maritime law enforcement or coastal police are police officers, usually a department of a larger police organizat ...

and Marine and Fisheries Resources Surveillance.

Iran

* Border Guard Command

Israel

Israel Border Police The Israel Border Police ( he, מִשְׁמַר הַגְּבוּל, Mišmar Ha-Gvul) is the gendarmerie and border security branch of the Israel National Police. It is also commonly known by its Hebrew abbreviation Magav (), meaning border g ...

Macau Special Administrative Region

Public Security Police Force of Macau The Public Security Police Force (;https://www.ssm.gov.mo/docs/414/414_99a608ac6d9e4c035e0e4eb47ab1f62cfc7a0c38_000.pdf pt, Corpo de Polícia de Segurança Pública de Macau, abbreviated ) is the non-criminal police department of Macau and ...

Malaysia

* Malaysian Immigration Department *

Royal Malaysian Customs Department The Royal Malaysian Customs Department ( ms, Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia), abbreviated RMC or JKDM, is the Malaysian Government agency responsible for administrating the nation's indirect tax policy, border enforcement and narcotic offences ...

Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (Abbr.; MMEA; ms, Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia – ''APMM''); formally known as Malaysia Coast Guard for international identification, is the coast guard organisation of Malaysia, and principa ...

Malaysian Armed Forces The Malaysian Armed Forces (: MAF; ms, Angkatan Tentera Malaysia; Jawi: ), are the armed forces of Malaysia, consists of three branches; the Malaysian Army, Royal Malaysian Navy and the Royal Malaysian Air Force. The number of MAF active pers ...

Royal Malaysia Police The Royal Malaysia Police (often abbreviated RMP) ( ms, Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM)), is a (primarily) uniformed national and federal police force in Malaysia. The force is a centralised organisation. Its headquarters are located at Bukit Aman ...

Pakistan

Pakistan Customs Pakistan Customs () is one of the elite cadres of the Civil Services of Pakistan. Pakistan Customs is manned by officers from the Pakistan Customs Service (PCS) which is one of the premier occupational group among Pakistan's civil services. Pr ...

operates on all Pakistani borders *

Frontier Corps The Frontier Corps ( ur, , reporting name: FC), are a group of paramilitary forces of Pakistan, operating in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to maintain law and order while overseeing the country's borders with Afghanist ...

Frontier Corps Balochistan (North) The Frontier Corps Balochistan (North) ( ur, , reporting name: FCB(N)), is a group of paramilitary regiments of Pakistan, operating in the northern part of the province of Balochistan, to overseeing the country's borders with Afghanistan and ...

on the central border with Afghanistan. **

Frontier Corps Balochistan (South) The Frontier Corps Balochistan (South) ( ur, , reporting name: FCB(S)), is a group of paramilitary forces of Pakistan, operating in the southwestern part of the province of Balochistan, to overseeing the country's borders with Afghanistan and ...

on the western border with Iran and the southwestern part of the border with Afghanistan **

Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North) The Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North) ( ur, , reporting name: FCKP(N)), is a group of paramilitary regiments of Pakistan, operating in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, overseeing the country's borders with Afghanistan ...

on the northwestern border with Afghanistan **

Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (South) The Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (South) ( ur, , reporting name: FCKP(S)), is a group of paramilitary regiments of Pakistan, operating in the southern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, to overseeing the country's borders with Afghanis ...

on the central border with Afghanistan *

Gilgit Baltistan Scouts The Gilgit−Baltistan Scouts, are a civil armed force of Pakistan, tasked with law enforcement in the nominally autonomous territory of Gilgit-Baltistan and border guard duties. The force was formed in 2003 under the control of the Interior ...

on the northeastern border with China and part of the

Line of Control The Line of Control (LoC) is a military control line between the Indian and Pakistanicontrolled parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir—a line which does not constitute a legally recognized international boundary, but serve ...

with Indian Kashmir *

Pakistan Coast Guards The Pakistan Coast Guards (reporting name: PCG) ( ur, ) is a maritime law enforcement agency within the Pakistan Army. It is a Army-managed and Army-controlled law enforcement agency whose mission is dedicated for the riverine operations and ...

is a mainly land-based patrol force on the southern coast *

Pakistan Maritime Security Agency The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (reporting name: PMSA) ( ur, ) is a branch of the Pakistan Navy. It is a Navy-managed and Navy-controlled law enforcement agency whose mission is to provide protection to the Pakistan's maritime interests ...

, a

coast guard A coast guard or coastguard is a maritime security organization of a particular country. The term embraces wide range of responsibilities in different countries, from being a heavily armed military force with customs and security duties to ...

on the southern maritime border *

Pakistan Rangers The Pakistan Rangers ( ur, ) are a paramilitary federal law enforcement organization in Pakistan, operating under the authority of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan. Their primary purpose is to secure and defend sites of significance in the ...

Punjab Rangers The Punjab Rangers (formally Pakistan Rangers Punjab) ( ur, ) is a paramilitary federal law enforcement corps in Pakistan. It is one of nine Civil Armed Forces and is one of two Ranger corps' with the other one being the Sindh Rangers, which ...

on the central eastern border with India **

Sindh Rangers The Sindh Rangers (formally Pakistan Rangers Sindh) ( ur, ) is a paramilitary federal law enforcement corps in Pakistan. It is one of nine Civil Armed Forces and is one of two Ranger corps' with the other one being the Punjab Rangers, which ...

on the south eastern border with India.

Singapore

Immigration and Checkpoints Authority The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) is a law-enforcement command within the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the border control agency responsible for frontline border control operations at air, sea and rail ports in Singapore. IC ...

South Korea

* Korea Immigration Service *

Korea Customs Service The Korea Customs Service (, KCS) is one of tax organizations in South Korea and is run under the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The headquarters is in Seo District, Daejeon Daejeon () is South Korea's fifth-largest metropolis, with a popu ...

Tajikistan

Tajik Border Troops The Border Troops (), also called the Border Service, is the border security force of Tajikistan. Functioning under the State Committee for National Security as part of the Armed Forces, the border guards are trained by the Organization for Se ...

Thailand

Border Patrol Police The Border Patrol Police ( th, ตำรวจตระเวนชายแดน); (BPP) is a Thai paramilitary police under the jurisdiction of the Royal Thai Police, responsible for border security and counterinsurgency. History The Thai Bo ...

* Paramilitary Marine Regiment *

Thahan Phran The Thahan Phran (ทหารพราน; literally "hunter soldiers"; AKA Thai Rangers) AKA the Royal Thai Paramilitary Force is a paramilitary light infantry force which patrols the borders of Thailand and is an auxiliary of the Royal Tha ...

Turkey

* Department of Foreigners, Borders and Asylum * Border Gendarmerie * Coast Guard Command *

General Directorate of Customs Protection In Turkey, the General Directorate of Customs Protection ( tr, Gümrükler Muhafaza Genel Müdürlüğü) is a special law enforcement agency responsible for controlling international transports to the country, checking goods and passenger movement ...

Republic of China

National Immigration Agency The National Immigration Agency of the Ministry of the Interior (NIA; ) is the statutory agency under the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of China (Taiwan) which is responsible for immigration, entry and exit security, border services and r ...

of the Ministry of the Interior of Taiwan Political Authority - Immigration and border security *

Customs Administration The Customs Administration, Ministry of Finance (CA; ) is the agency of the Ministry of Finance of Taiwan (ROC) dealing with customs policies and regulations in Taiwan. Republic of China is not a Member of World Customs Organization but ROC ha ...

of Ministry of Finance - handles customs

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates Coast Guard The United Arab Emirates Coast Guard is the official coast guard agency of the United Arab Emirates and is primarily responsible for the protection of the UAE's coastline through regulation of maritime laws, maintenance of seamarks, border control ...

* The Dubai Council for Border Crossing Points Security

Vietnam

Vietnam Border Guard , ) or Vietnam Border Defence Force is a branch of the Vietnam People's Army. It is responsible for management and protection of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, security, order and national boundaries on the mainland, islands, sea and at the ...

Europe

European Union

Frontex The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, also known as Frontex (from French: ''Frontières extérieures'' for "external borders"), is an agency of the European Union headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, exercising in coordination with the borde ...

Andorra

Police Corps of Andorra The Police Corps of Andorra ( ca, Cos de Policia d’Andorra) is the national police of Andorra. In 2007, the force had 240 officers serving a population of approximately 85,000. Structure The police force consists of the Directorate of the Polic ...

Belarus

State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus The State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus, GPK ( be, Дзяржаўны пагранічны камітэт Рэспублікі Беларусь, ДПК;russian: Государственный пограничный комитет � ...

Border Guard Service of Belarus The State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus, GPK ( be, Дзяржаўны пагранічны камітэт Рэспублікі Беларусь, ДПК;russian: Государственный пограничный комитет � ...

Bulgaria

* Bulgaria Border Police

Czech Republic

* Policie České republiky - Služba cizinecké policie

Croatia

* Croatian Border Police

Estonia

Police and Border Guard Board The Police and Border Guard Board ( et, Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet) is a unified national governmental agency within the Estonian Ministry of Interior and is responsible for law enforcement and internal security in the Republic of Estonia. The ...

( et, Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet)

Finland

Finnish Border Guard The Finnish Border Guard (; ) is the agency responsible for enforcing the security of Finland's borders. It is a military organisation, subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior in administrative issues and to the President of Finland in issue ...

France

Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes The Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes (french: Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects, DGDDI), commonly known as ''les douanes'' (Customs), is the customs service of the French Republic. It is responsible for levying i ...

Direction centrale de la police aux frontières The Direction centrale de la police aux frontières (DCPAF; en, Central Directorate of the Border Police) is a directorate of the French National Police that is responsible for border control at certain border crossing points in France. It wa ...

Gendarmerie Nationale Gendarmerie Nationale most commonly refers to: * Gendarmerie Nationale (France) * Gendarmerie Nationale (Belgium), merged with Belgian police in 2001 Gendarmerie Nationale may also refer to: *Gendarmerie Nationale (Algeria) * Gendarmerie National ...

Georgia

* Patrol Police Department (border control) *

Border Police of Georgia The Border Police of Georgia (Georgian: შსს-ის საქართველოს სასაზღვრო პოლიცია) is the primary border guarding force and coast guard in the country of Georgia, and is under command of ...

(border supervision)

Germany

German Federal Police The Federal Police (''Bundespolizei'' or BPOL) is the national and principal federal law enforcement agency of the German Federal Government, being subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (''Bundesministeriu ...

(formerly known as the Bundesgrenzschutz from 1951-2005) *

Bundeszollverwaltung The Bundeszollverwaltung (Federal Customs Service) is the customs service of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is also the executive and fiscal administrative unit of the federal government and part of the Federal Ministry of Finance. It wa ...

(Federal Customs Service)

Ireland

Garda Síochána (; meaning "the Guardian(s) of the Peace"), more commonly referred to as the Gardaí (; "Guardians") or "the Guards", is the national police service of Ireland. The service is headed by the Garda Commissioner who is appointed by the Irish Gover ...

Border Management Unit Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Political borders c ...

, Dept of Justice. BMU is responsible for Immigration at Dublin Airport

Italy

Polizia di Stato The ''Polizia di Stato'' (State Police or P.S.) is one of the national police forces of Italy. Alongside the Carabinieri, it is the main police force for providing police duties, primarily to cities and large towns, and with its child agencies ...

Guardia di Finanza The ''Guardia di Finanza'' (G. di F. or GdF) () (English: literal: ''Guard of Finance'', paraphrased: ''Financial Police'' or ''Financial Guard'') is an Italian law enforcement agency under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance. ...

Kyrgyzstan

State Border Guard Service (Kyrgyz Republic) The Border Guard Service of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic also commonly known as the Kyrgyz Frontier Force is the border guard of the Kyrgyz Republic. It is currently a Public Service department of the government ...

Latvia

State Border Guard The State Border Guard ( lv, Valsts Robežsardze) is the border guard of Latvia. The State Border Guard is an institution subordinated to the Minister of the Interior. The State Border Guard is an armed institution and it serves to ensure the sec ...

Liechtenstein

* Border and Customs Unit

Lithuania

State Border Guard Service The Border Guard Service of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic also commonly known as the Kyrgyz Frontier Force is the border guard of the Kyrgyz Republic. It is currently a Public Service department of the government ...

Moldova

* Moldovan Border Police

Netherlands

Royal Marechaussee The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee ( nl, Koninklijke Marechaussee, abbreviated to KMar) is the national gendarmerie force of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, performing military and civilian police duties. It is also one of the two national pol ...

Norway

Garnisonen i Sør-Varanger Garnisonen ("Garrison") is a city district in Linköping, which was previously the site of the two military units closed down in July 1997, Life Grenadier Regiment (I 4) and Svea Artillery Regiment (A 1). In 2000, the district was formed by div ...

Poland

Border Guard (Poland) The Polish Border Guard ( pl, Straż Graniczna, also abbreviated as SG) is a state security agency tasked with patrolling the Polish border. It existed in the Second Republic era from 1928 to 1939 and was reestablished in the modern-day Thi ...

(Polish: Straż Graniczna)

Portugal

* Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (Immigration and Border Service) *

Guarda Nacional Republicana The National Republican Guard ( pt, Guarda Nacional Republicana) or GNR is the national gendarmerie force of Portugal. Members of the GNR are military personnel, subject to military law and organisation, unlike the agents of the civilian Publi ...

(Unidade de Controlo Costeiro) (Border Surveillance)

Romania

Romanian Border Police The Romanian Border Police ( ro, Poliția de Frontieră) is the structure of the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs (Romania), Ministry of Internal Affairs responsible for the border security and passport control at border crossing points, airpo ...

( ro, Poliţia de Frontieră)

Russia

Border Guard Service of Russia The Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (PS FSB Rossii) (russian: Пограничная служба Федеральной службы безопасности Российской Федерации (� ...

(Russian: Пограничная служба России)

Spain

National Police National Police may refer to the national police forces of several countries: *Afghanistan: Afghan National Police *Haiti: Haitian National Police *Colombia: National Police of Colombia *Cuba: Cuban National Police *East Timor: National Police of ...

(border control, immigration, refuge and asylum, extradition and expulsion) *

Guardia Civil The Civil Guard ( es, Guardia Civil, link=no; ) is the oldest law enforcement agency in Spain and is one of two national police forces. As a national gendarmerie force, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil policing under the a ...

(border surveillance)

Sweden

* Swedish Police Authority

Switzerland

Border Guard Corps The Swiss Border Guard (french: Corps des gardes-frontière, german: Grenzwachtkorps, it, Corpo delle guardie di confine, rm, Corp da guardias da cunfin) was a federal law enforcement agency, which acted as both the border guard and customs s ...

(land borders and the airports of Basel (together with French Border police), Geneva and Lugano * Cantonal police of Berne (at Bern-Belp airport) * Cantonal police of Zurich (at Zurich airport)

Ukraine

* State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Державна Прикордонна Служба України)

United Kingdom

Border Force Border Force (BF) is a law-enforcement command within the Home Office, responsible for frontline border control operations at air, sea and rail ports in the United Kingdom. The force was part of the now defunct UK Border Agency from its estab ...

Guernsey

* Guernsey Border Agency

Jersey

* Customs and Immigration Service

North America

Canada

Canada Border Services Agency The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA; french: Agence des services frontaliers du Canada, ''ASFC'') is a federal law enforcement agency that is responsible for border control (i.e. protection and surveillance), immigration enforcement, and cu ...

United States

U.S. Customs and Border Protection United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security. It is the country's primary border control organization, charged with regulating and facilit ...

** U.S. Border Patrol

Mexico

Instituto Nacional de Migración The National Institute of Migration (INM) is a unit of the government of Mexico dependent on the Secretariat of the Interior that controls and supervises migration in the country. Programs ''Paisano'' program During the Presidency of Carlos Sal ...

(National Institute of Migration)

Oceania

Australia

Australian Border Force The Australian Border Force (ABF) is a federal law enforcement agency, part of the Department of Home Affairs, responsible for offshore and onshore border control enforcement, investigations, compliance and detention operations in Australia. Thr ...

New Zealand

Immigration New Zealand Immigration New Zealand ( mi, Te Ratonga Manene; INZ), formerly the New Zealand Immigration Service (NZIS), is the agency within the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) that is responsible for border control, iss ...

New Zealand Customs Service The New Zealand Customs Service (Customs, Māori: ''Te Mana Ārai o Aotearoa'') is a state sector organisation in New Zealand whose role is to provide border control and protect the community from potential risks arising from international trade ...

South America

Colombia

* Migración Colombia

Defunct agencies

East Germany

Grenztruppen der DDR The Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic (german: Grenztruppen der DDR) was the border guard of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1946 to 1990. The were the primary force guarding the Berlin Wall and the Inner German border, ...

Nazi Germany

* Zollgrenzschutz (Custom Border Guards)

Soviet Union

USSR Border Troops The Soviet Border Troops (russian: Пограничные войска СССР, Pogranichnyye voyska SSSR) were the border guard of the Soviet Union, subordinated to the Soviet state security agency: first to the ''Cheka''/OGPU, then to NKVD ...

Austria-Hungary

Grenz Infantry Grenz infantry or Grenzers or Granichary (from german: Grenzer "border guard" or "frontiersman"; Serbo-Croatian: graničari, krajišnici, sr-cyr, граничари, крајишници, Russian Cyrillic: граничары) were light infant ...

References

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