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How the crowd draws

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

Draw Bosnia and Herzegovina

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area52,000 km²20,000 sq mi49,000 km²19,000 sq mi4.8% smaller
Outline1,135 km705 mi1,123 km698 mi1.1% shorter
Centre17.77° E, 44.17° N17.8° E, 44.2° N17.82° E, 44.18° N17.8° E, 44.2° N4 km east2 mi east
Westernmost15.74° E, 44.77° N15.7° E, 44.8° N15.82° E, 44.80° N15.8° E, 44.8° N7 km short4 mi short
Easternmost19.58° E, 44.03° N19.6° E, 44.0° N19.58° E, 44.01° N19.6° E, 44.0° Nthe same
Southernmost18.44° E, 42.56° N18.4° E, 42.6° N18.49° E, 42.62° N18.5° E, 42.6° N7 km short4 mi short
Northernmost16.92° E, 45.28° N16.9° E, 45.3° N16.92° E, 45.24° N16.9° E, 45.2° N4 km short3 mi short

Near the land border, 58% of the crowd’s lines run inside Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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.

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia: 696 km in the game, 956 km officially.

3 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Croatia696 km in the game956 km officially649 km the crowd’s6.8% shorter
Serbia253 km in the game345 km officially253 km the crowd’sthe same
Montenegro179 km in the game242 km officially214 km the crowd’s19.6% longer

How it is measured

The crowd’s Bosnia and Herzegovina: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 598 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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