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How the crowd draws

313 drawings of its land border and 678 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area5,395 km²2,083 sq mi5,581 km²2,155 sq mi3.5% bigger
Outline488 km303 mi549 km341 mi12.5% longer
Centre32.99° E, 34.92° N33.0° E, 34.9° N33.02° E, 34.92° N33.0° E, 34.9° N3 km east2 mi east
Westernmost32.27° E, 35.07° N32.3° E, 35.1° N32.28° E, 35.09° N32.3° E, 35.1° N1 km short1 mi short
Easternmost34.10° E, 34.97° N34.1° E, 35.0° N34.04° E, 35.04° N34.0° E, 35.0° N5 km short3 mi short
Southernmost32.96° E, 34.63° N33.0° E, 34.6° N33.02° E, 34.63° N33.0° E, 34.6° Nthe same
Northernmost32.67° E, 35.19° N32.7° E, 35.2° N32.68° E, 35.20° N32.7° E, 35.2° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond

Near the land border, 40% of the crowd’s lines run inside Cyprus. Near the coast, 53% 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.

Cyprus’s coast: 233 km in the game, 648 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Cyprus U.N. Buffer Zone158 km in the game156 km the crowd’s1.3% shorter
Dhekelia45 km in the game103 km the crowd’s128.9% longer
Akrotiri44 km in the game32 km the crowd’s27.3% shorter
N. Cyprus5 km in the game5 km the crowd’sthe same
The coast233 km in the game648 km officially236 km the crowd’s1.3% longer

How it is measured

The crowd’s Cyprus: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Cyprus 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 991 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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