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How the crowd draws

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

Draw Belarus

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area207,000 km²80,000 sq mi193,000 km²75,000 sq mi6.5% smaller
Outline2,412 km1,499 mi2,372 km1,474 mi1.7% shorter
Centre28.02° E, 53.52° N28.0° E, 53.5° N27.94° E, 53.45° N27.9° E, 53.5° N9 km south-west5 mi south-west
Westernmost23.18° E, 52.29° N23.2° E, 52.3° N23.20° E, 52.29° N23.2° E, 52.3° N2 km short1 mi short
Easternmost32.71° E, 53.37° N32.7° E, 53.4° N32.57° E, 53.39° N32.6° E, 53.4° N10 km short6 mi short
Southernmost30.54° E, 51.27° N30.5° E, 51.3° N30.50° E, 51.37° N30.5° E, 51.4° N11 km short7 mi short
Northernmost28.12° E, 56.15° N28.1° E, 56.1° N29.28° E, 55.89° N29.3° E, 55.9° N29 km short18 mi short

Near the land border, 59% of the crowd’s lines run inside Belarus.

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.

Belarus and Russia: 811 km in the game, 1,312 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Russia811 km in the game1,312 km officially833 km the crowd’s2.7% longer
Ukraine747 km in the game1,111 km officially727 km the crowd’s2.7% shorter
Lithuania427 km in the game640 km officially453 km the crowd’s6.1% longer
Poland317 km in the game375 km officially274 km the crowd’s13.6% shorter
Latvia123 km in the game161 km officially100 km the crowd’s18.7% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Belarus: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Belarus 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 543 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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