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How the crowd draws

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

Draw Bhutan

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area40,000 km²16,000 sq mi38,000 km²15,000 sq mi6.1% smaller
Outline1,018 km633 mi963 km599 mi5.4% shorter
Centre90.40° E, 27.42° N90.4° E, 27.4° N90.41° E, 27.44° N90.4° E, 27.4° N2 km north1 mi north
Westernmost88.73° E, 27.15° N88.7° E, 27.2° N88.81° E, 27.19° N88.8° E, 27.2° N8 km short5 mi short
Easternmost92.09° E, 27.29° N92.1° E, 27.3° N92.07° E, 27.29° N92.1° E, 27.3° N2 km short1 mi short
Southernmost89.81° E, 26.70° N89.8° E, 26.7° N89.79° E, 26.75° N89.8° E, 26.8° N6 km short4 mi short
Northernmost90.23° E, 28.36° N90.2° E, 28.4° N89.91° E, 28.24° N89.9° E, 28.2° N13 km short8 mi short

Near the land border, 61% of the crowd’s lines run inside Bhutan.

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.

Bhutan and India: 590 km in the game, 659 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
India590 km in the game659 km officially539 km the crowd’s8.6% shorter
China420 km in the game477 km officially409 km the crowd’s2.6% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Bhutan: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Bhutan 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 297 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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