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How the crowd draws

262 drawings of its land border and 596 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 22 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Brunei

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area5,738 km²2,216 sq mi6,534 km²2,523 sq mi13.9% bigger
Outline587 km365 mi620 km385 mi5.6% longer
Centre114.73° E, 4.52° N114.7° E, 4.5° N114.69° E, 4.49° N114.7° E, 4.5° N5 km south-west3 mi south-west
Westernmost114.00° E, 4.60° N114.0° E, 4.6° N113.98° E, 4.61° N114.0° E, 4.6° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Easternmost115.36° E, 4.33° N115.4° E, 4.3° N115.35° E, 4.33° N115.3° E, 4.3° N1 km short1 mi short
Southernmost114.62° E, 4.02° N114.6° E, 4.0° N114.59° E, 4.00° N114.6° E, 4.0° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost115.08° E, 5.06° N115.1° E, 5.1° N115.12° E, 5.06° N115.1° E, 5.1° Nthe same

Near the land border, 36% of the crowd’s lines run inside Brunei. Near the coast, 42% 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.

Brunei’s coast: 184 km in the game, 161 km officially.

1 neighbour
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Malaysia401 km in the game413 km the crowd’s3.0% longer
The coast184 km in the game161 km officially198 km the crowd’s7.6% longer

How it is measured

The crowd’s Brunei: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Brunei 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 858 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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