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How the crowd draws

465 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area642,000 km²248,000 sq mi611,000 km²236,000 sq mi4.9% smaller
Outline4,762 km2,959 mi4,455 km2,768 mi6.4% shorter
Centre65.93° E, 33.82° N65.9° E, 33.8° N65.98° E, 33.79° N66.0° E, 33.8° N6 km south-east4 mi south-east
Westernmost60.49° E, 34.09° N60.5° E, 34.1° N60.65° E, 33.67° N60.7° E, 33.7° N15 km short9 mi short
Easternmost74.88° E, 37.24° N74.9° E, 37.2° N74.50° E, 37.02° N74.5° E, 37.0° N34 km short21 mi short
Southernmost64.09° E, 29.40° N64.1° E, 29.4° N62.50° E, 29.56° N62.5° E, 29.6° N18 km short11 mi short
Northernmost70.89° E, 38.45° N70.9° E, 38.5° N70.80° E, 38.23° N70.8° E, 38.2° N24 km short15 mi short

Near the land border, 53% of the crowd’s lines run inside Afghanistan.

Borders

Why two lengths?

A line’s length depends on how closely it is drawn. The game’s lines are simplified: they keep a point every few kilometres and cut across small bends. The official lengths, from the CIA World Factbook, are measured on other lines. A border measured on a finer line, following every bend of its rivers and ridges, comes out longer.

Coasts differ most, and either way. Some official coastlines follow every inlet and island (Canada’s 202,080 km); others are smoothed on purpose, crossing bays and sounds (the United States’ 19,924 km), and can come out shorter than the game’s.

Players draw against the game’s line and are scored against it, so the crowd’s length is compared with the game’s, both measured the same way. Set against an official length measured another way, the comparison would say more about the two methods than about the crowd.

Afghanistan and Pakistan: 2,055 km in the game, 2,670 km officially.

6 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Pakistan2,055 km in the game2,670 km officially1,981 km the crowd’s3.6% shorter
Tajikistan1,039 km in the game1,357 km officially953 km the crowd’s8.3% shorter
Iran844 km in the game921 km officially800 km the crowd’s5.2% shorter
Turkmenistan661 km in the game804 km officially577 km the crowd’s12.7% shorter
Uzbekistan121 km in the game144 km officially120 km the crowd’s0.8% shorter
China70 km in the game91 km officially45 km the crowd’s35.7% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Afghanistan: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Afghanistan or outside it; the median over a short stretch is where the crowd puts the line there, and the real outline moved by it is the crowd’s. Where the move folds a narrow inlet over itself, the loop is cut.

The 465 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s World map, scribbles left out, the real line the game’s own. Area true to scale; the outline copies the real line’s detail, so its length changes only where the shape moves or a loop is cut.

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