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How the crowd draws the

594 drawings of its land border and 587 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 19 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw the Dominican Republic

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area48,000 km²19,000 sq mi45,000 km²18,000 sq mi6.2% smaller
Outline1,463 km909 mi1,391 km864 mi4.9% shorter
Centre70.50° W, 18.90° N70.5° W, 18.9° N70.48° W, 18.85° N70.5° W, 18.9° N6 km south-east4 mi south-east
Westernmost72.01° W, 18.60° N72.0° W, 18.6° N71.88° W, 18.59° N71.9° W, 18.6° N14 km short9 mi short
Easternmost68.33° W, 18.61° N68.3° W, 18.6° N68.34° W, 18.61° N68.3° W, 18.6° N2 km short1 mi short
Southernmost71.42° W, 17.60° N71.4° W, 17.6° N71.64° W, 17.77° N71.6° W, 17.8° N19 km short12 mi short
Northernmost71.00° W, 19.94° N71.0° W, 19.9° N71.75° W, 19.78° N71.7° W, 19.8° N17 km short10 mi short

Near the land border, 54% of the crowd’s lines run inside the Dominican Republic. 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.

Dominican Republic and Haiti: 231 km in the game, 376 km officially.

Dominican Republic’s coast: 1,214 km in the game, 1,288 km officially.

1 neighbour
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Haiti231 km in the game376 km officially196 km the crowd’s15.2% shorter
The coast1,214 km in the game1,288 km officially1,183 km the crowd’s2.6% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Dominican Republic: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside the Dominican Republic 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 1,181 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 1,181.

2 small pieces of the Dominican Republic, 157 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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