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How the crowd draws

560 drawings of its land border and 794 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area28,000 km²11,000 sq mi25,000 km²9,464 sq mi13.4% smaller
Outline1,080 km671 mi940 km584 mi13.0% shorter
Centre20.06° E, 41.13° N20.1° E, 41.1° N20.06° E, 41.14° N20.1° E, 41.1° N0 km north-east0 mi north-east
Westernmost19.27° E, 42.18° N19.3° E, 42.2° N19.33° E, 41.85° N19.3° E, 41.9° N5 km short3 mi short
Easternmost21.04° E, 40.66° N21.0° E, 40.7° N20.90° E, 40.51° N20.9° E, 40.5° N12 km short7 mi short
Southernmost20.19° E, 39.64° N20.2° E, 39.6° N20.00° E, 39.69° N20.0° E, 39.7° N6 km short4 mi short
Northernmost19.70° E, 42.65° N19.7° E, 42.7° N20.08° E, 42.44° N20.1° E, 42.4° N23 km short14 mi short

Near the land border, 67% of the crowd’s lines run inside Albania. Near the coast, 48% run inland.

Borders and coast

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.

Albania and Greece: 197 km in the game, 212 km officially.

Albania’s coast: 457 km in the game, 362 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Greece197 km in the game212 km officially204 km the crowd’s3.6% longer
Montenegro146 km in the game186 km officially115 km the crowd’s21.2% shorter
Macedonia141 km in the game181 km officially152 km the crowd’s7.8% longer
Kosovo92 km in the game112 km officially76 km the crowd’s17.4% shorter
The coast457 km in the game362 km officially325 km the crowd’s28.9% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Albania: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Albania 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 1,354 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. The map lays the 1,000 most recent; the heat map, the crowd’s shape and every figure use all 1,354.

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