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How the crowd draws

280 drawings of its land border and 851 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 19 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area322,000 km²124,000 sq mi324,000 km²125,000 sq mi0.5% bigger
Outline3,830 km2,380 mi3,430 km2,131 mi10.4% shorter
Centre5.57° W, 7.63° N5.6° W, 7.6° N5.36° W, 7.45° N5.4° W, 7.4° N31 km south-east19 mi south-east
Westernmost8.61° W, 6.50° N8.6° W, 6.5° N8.25° W, 6.46° N8.2° W, 6.5° N40 km short25 mi short
Easternmost2.51° W, 8.22° N2.5° W, 8.2° N2.51° W, 8.20° N2.5° W, 8.2° Nthe same
Southernmost7.47° W, 4.35° N7.5° W, 4.3° N7.44° W, 4.34° N7.4° W, 4.3° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost6.27° W, 10.72° N6.3° W, 10.7° N6.27° W, 10.50° N6.3° W, 10.5° N24 km short15 mi short

Near the land border, 55% of the crowd’s lines run inside Côte d'Ivoire. Near the coast, 20% 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.

Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana: 571 km in the game, 720 km officially.

Côte d'Ivoire’s coast: 1,234 km in the game, 515 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Ghana571 km in the game720 km officially595 km the crowd’s4.2% longer
Guinea480 km in the game816 km officially554 km the crowd’s15.4% longer
Liberia472 km in the game778 km officially441 km the crowd’s6.6% shorter
Mali437 km in the game599 km officially435 km the crowd’s0.5% shorter
Burkina Faso386 km in the game545 km officially418 km the crowd’s8.3% longer
The coast1,234 km in the game515 km officially656 km the crowd’s46.8% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Côte d'Ivoire: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Côte d'Ivoire 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 1,131 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 1,131.

One small piece of Côte d'Ivoire, 66 km², keeps its 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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