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How the crowd draws

830 drawings of its land border and 850 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Croatia

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area52,000 km²20,000 sq mi51,000 km²20,000 sq mi2.9% smaller
Outline2,689 km1,671 mi2,559 km1,590 mi4.8% shorter
Centre16.44° E, 45.12° N16.4° E, 45.1° N16.40° E, 45.07° N16.4° E, 45.1° N6 km south-west4 mi south-west
Westernmost13.50° E, 45.50° N13.5° E, 45.5° N13.54° E, 45.48° N13.5° E, 45.5° N3 km short2 mi short
Easternmost19.41° E, 45.20° N19.4° E, 45.2° N19.32° E, 45.21° N19.3° E, 45.2° N7 km short4 mi short
Southernmost18.51° E, 42.44° N18.5° E, 42.4° N18.53° E, 42.42° N18.5° E, 42.4° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost16.37° E, 46.54° N16.4° E, 46.5° N16.30° E, 46.48° N16.3° E, 46.5° N7 km short5 mi short

Near the land border, 49% of the crowd’s lines run inside Croatia. Near the coast, 60% 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.

Croatia and Bosnia and Herz.: 694 km in the game, 956 km officially.

Croatia’s coast: 877 km in the game, 5,835 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Bosnia and Herz.694 km in the game956 km officially704 km the crowd’s1.4% longer
Slovenia368 km in the game600 km officially397 km the crowd’s7.9% longer
Hungary224 km in the game348 km officially195 km the crowd’s12.9% shorter
Serbia183 km in the game314 km officially168 km the crowd’s8.2% shorter
Montenegro17 km in the game19 km officially21 km the crowd’s23.5% longer
The coast877 km in the game5,835 km officially714 km the crowd’s18.6% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Croatia: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Croatia 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 1,680 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 1,680.

23 small pieces of Croatia, 2,764 km² in all, keep their 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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