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How the crowd draws

705 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Austria

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area84,000 km²32,000 sq mi74,000 km²29,000 sq mi11.9% smaller
Outline1,810 km1,125 mi1,711 km1,063 mi5.5% shorter
Centre14.11° E, 47.59° N14.1° E, 47.6° N14.11° E, 47.60° N14.1° E, 47.6° N0 km north0 mi north
Westernmost9.53° E, 47.52° N9.5° E, 47.5° N9.65° E, 47.27° N9.7° E, 47.3° N9 km short6 mi short
Easternmost17.14° E, 48.00° N17.1° E, 48.0° N16.97° E, 47.78° N17.0° E, 47.8° N13 km short8 mi short
Southernmost14.55° E, 46.40° N14.6° E, 46.4° N14.34° E, 46.56° N14.3° E, 46.6° N17 km short11 mi short
Northernmost15.00° E, 49.00° N15.0° E, 49.0° N15.09° E, 48.93° N15.1° E, 48.9° N8 km short5 mi short

Near the land border, 62% of the crowd’s lines run inside Austria.

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.

Austria and Germany: 560 km in the game, 801 km officially.

8 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Germany560 km in the game801 km officially550 km the crowd’s1.8% shorter
Italy300 km in the game404 km officially271 km the crowd’s9.7% shorter
Czechia296 km in the game402 km officially279 km the crowd’s5.7% shorter
Hungary223 km in the game321 km officially228 km the crowd’s2.2% longer
Slovenia215 km in the game299 km officially190 km the crowd’s11.6% shorter
Switzerland125 km in the game158 km officially111 km the crowd’s11.2% shorter
Slovakia75 km in the game105 km officially69 km the crowd’s8.0% shorter
Liechtenstein24 km in the game21 km the crowd’s12.5% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Austria: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Austria 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 705 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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