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How the crowd draws

321 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 21 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Burkina Faso

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area274,000 km²106,000 sq mi262,000 km²101,000 sq mi4.4% smaller
Outline2,795 km1,736 mi2,691 km1,672 mi3.7% shorter
Centre1.76° W, 12.27° N1.8° W, 12.3° N1.75° W, 12.35° N1.7° W, 12.4° N9 km north6 mi north
Westernmost5.52° W, 10.44° N5.5° W, 10.4° N5.43° W, 11.02° N5.4° W, 11.0° N10 km short6 mi short
Easternmost2.39° E, 11.90° N2.4° E, 11.9° N2.16° E, 11.87° N2.2° E, 11.9° N25 km short16 mi short
Southernmost2.81° W, 9.43° N2.8° W, 9.4° N2.75° W, 9.85° N2.7° W, 9.8° N46 km short29 mi short
Northernmost0.54° W, 15.08° N0.5° W, 15.1° N0.67° W, 14.86° N0.7° W, 14.9° N24 km short15 mi short

Near the land border, 53% of the crowd’s lines run inside Burkina Faso.

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.

Burkina Faso and Mali: 1,033 km in the game, 1,325 km officially.

6 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Mali1,033 km in the game1,325 km officially997 km the crowd’s3.5% shorter
Niger548 km in the game622 km officially592 km the crowd’s8.0% longer
Ghana503 km in the game602 km officially463 km the crowd’s8.0% shorter
Côte d'Ivoire385 km in the game545 km officially335 km the crowd’s13.0% shorter
Benin223 km in the game386 km officially206 km the crowd’s7.6% shorter
Togo114 km in the game131 km officially111 km the crowd’s2.6% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Burkina Faso: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Burkina Faso 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 321 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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