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How the crowd draws

422 drawings of its land border and 600 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Belize

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area22,000 km²8,529 sq mi20,000 km²7,751 sq mi9.1% smaller
Outline887 km551 mi784 km487 mi11.6% shorter
Centre88.70° W, 17.20° N88.7° W, 17.2° N88.72° W, 17.22° N88.7° W, 17.2° N3 km north-west2 mi north-west
Westernmost89.24° W, 15.95° N89.2° W, 16.0° N89.16° W, 16.78° N89.2° W, 16.8° N8 km short5 mi short
Easternmost88.08° W, 18.22° N88.1° W, 18.2° N88.20° W, 18.13° N88.2° W, 18.1° N12 km short7 mi short
Southernmost88.95° W, 15.88° N89.0° W, 15.9° N88.90° W, 15.88° N88.9° W, 15.9° Nthe same
Northernmost88.41° W, 18.49° N88.4° W, 18.5° N88.30° W, 18.48° N88.3° W, 18.5° N1 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 56% of the crowd’s lines run inside Belize. Near the coast, 56% 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.

Belize and Guatemala: 250 km in the game, 266 km officially.

Belize’s coast: 487 km in the game, 386 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Guatemala250 km in the game266 km officially229 km the crowd’s8.4% shorter
Mexico155 km in the game276 km officially172 km the crowd’s11.0% longer
The coast487 km in the game386 km officially368 km the crowd’s24.4% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Belize: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Belize 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 1,022 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 1,022.

9 small pieces of Belize, 290 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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