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Abstract: „This article proposes to study the depth of border areas not only based on border employment, an indicator very often used to delimit the area where interactions on either side of the border are strongest, but by adding to it the inhabitants’ feeling of proximity to the border. The use of the feeling of proximity adds a more subjective dimension to the spatial definition of the border area, with residents using their own representations to choose whether their location is close to the border. The results obtained show the border area to be a blurred geographical space made up of a core, where trade is intense with the neighbouring country, and fringes marked by greater uncertainty about belonging to the border area and extending well beyond the traditional delimitation. These fringes are nonetheless interesting because they have a specific relationship with the neighbouring country due to their greater distance from the border and the existence of less frequent border practices carried out in different ways.“