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How the crowd draws

472 drawings of its land border and 603 drawings of its coast, 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
Area86,000 km²33,000 sq mi83,000 km²32,000 sq mi4.0% smaller
Outline2,520 km1,566 mi2,499 km1,553 mi0.8% shorter
Centre47.54° E, 40.29° N47.5° E, 40.3° N47.57° E, 40.28° N47.6° E, 40.3° N3 km east2 mi east
Westernmost44.77° E, 39.70° N44.8° E, 39.7° N44.76° E, 39.70° N44.8° E, 39.7° Nthe same
Easternmost50.39° E, 40.23° N50.4° E, 40.2° N50.41° E, 40.22° N50.4° E, 40.2° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Southernmost48.65° E, 38.39° N48.6° E, 38.4° N48.88° E, 38.42° N48.9° E, 38.4° N3 km short2 mi short
Northernmost46.44° E, 41.89° N46.4° E, 41.9° N48.57° E, 41.88° N48.6° E, 41.9° N1 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 52% of the crowd’s lines run inside Azerbaijan. Near the coast, 52% 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.

Azerbaijan and Armenia: 657 km in the game, 996 km officially.

Azerbaijan’s coast: 684 km in the game, 713 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Armenia657 km in the game996 km officially720 km the crowd’s9.6% longer
Iran546 km in the game689 km officially526 km the crowd’s3.7% shorter
Georgia274 km in the game428 km officially274 km the crowd’sthe same
Russia255 km in the game338 km officially238 km the crowd’s6.7% shorter
Turkey9 km in the game17 km officially14 km the crowd’s55.6% longer
The coast684 km in the game713 km officially605 km the crowd’s11.5% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Azerbaijan: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Azerbaijan 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 1,075 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 1,075.

3 small pieces of Azerbaijan, 49 km² in all, keep their real shape, shown flat: islands no round asks players to draw, or too small to measure. They count in no figure.

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