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How the crowd draws

180 drawings of its land border and 161 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 22 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Equatorial Guinea

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area27,000 km²10,000 sq mi26,000 km²10,000 sq mi2.6% smaller
Outline963 km598 mi1,026 km638 mi6.5% longer
Centre10.34° E, 1.71° N10.3° E, 1.7° N10.40° E, 1.71° N10.4° E, 1.7° N8 km east5 mi east
Westernmost8.42° E, 3.34° N8.4° E, 3.3° N8.45° E, 3.34° N8.4° E, 3.3° N3 km short2 mi short
Easternmost11.34° E, 1.41° N11.3° E, 1.4° N11.38° E, 1.77° N11.4° E, 1.8° N5 km beyond3 mi beyond
Southernmost9.95° E, 0.92° N9.9° E, 0.9° N9.94° E, 0.96° N9.9° E, 1.0° N4 km short3 mi short
Northernmost8.74° E, 3.77° N8.7° E, 3.8° N8.72° E, 3.74° N8.7° E, 3.7° N3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 49% of the crowd’s lines run inside Equatorial Guinea. Near the coast, 57% 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.

Equatorial Guinea and Gabon: 308 km in the game, 345 km officially.

Equatorial Guinea’s coast: 477 km in the game, 296 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Gabon308 km in the game345 km officially315 km the crowd’s2.3% longer
Cameroon180 km in the game183 km officially183 km the crowd’s1.7% longer
The coast477 km in the game296 km officially525 km the crowd’s10.1% longer

How it is measured

The crowd’s Equatorial Guinea: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Equatorial Guinea 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 341 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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