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How the crowd draws

444 drawings of its land border and 645 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw El Salvador

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area21,000 km²7,950 sq mi18,000 km²6,942 sq mi12.7% smaller
Outline903 km561 mi763 km474 mi15.6% shorter
Centre88.87° W, 13.74° N88.9° W, 13.7° N88.90° W, 13.77° N88.9° W, 13.8° N5 km north-west3 mi north-west
Westernmost90.11° W, 13.81° N90.1° W, 13.8° N90.10° W, 13.82° N90.1° W, 13.8° N1 km short1 mi short
Easternmost87.70° W, 13.82° N87.7° W, 13.8° N87.75° W, 13.48° N87.8° W, 13.5° N5 km short3 mi short
Southernmost87.93° W, 13.16° N87.9° W, 13.2° N88.21° W, 13.28° N88.2° W, 13.3° N13 km short8 mi short
Northernmost89.40° W, 14.44° N89.4° W, 14.4° N89.47° W, 14.36° N89.5° W, 14.4° N9 km short6 mi short

Near the land border, 54% of the crowd’s lines run inside El Salvador. Near the coast, 68% 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.

El Salvador and Honduras: 321 km in the game, 391 km officially.

El Salvador’s coast: 431 km in the game, 307 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Honduras321 km in the game391 km officially305 km the crowd’s5.0% shorter
Guatemala157 km in the game199 km officially154 km the crowd’s1.9% shorter
The coast431 km in the game307 km officially305 km the crowd’s29.2% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s El Salvador: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside El Salvador 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 1,089 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 1,089.

2 small pieces of El Salvador, 24 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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