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How the crowd draws

487 drawings of its land border and 300 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Estonia

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area45,000 km²17,000 sq mi44,000 km²17,000 sq mi2.7% smaller
Outline1,839 km1,143 mi1,727 km1,073 mi6.1% shorter
Centre25.56° E, 58.67° N25.6° E, 58.7° N25.56° E, 58.70° N25.6° E, 58.7° N3 km north2 mi north
Westernmost21.84° E, 58.51° N21.8° E, 58.5° N21.85° E, 58.31° N21.8° E, 58.3° N1 km short0 mi short
Easternmost28.18° E, 59.37° N28.2° E, 59.4° N28.02° E, 59.47° N28.0° E, 59.5° N9 km short6 mi short
Southernmost26.51° E, 57.52° N26.5° E, 57.5° N27.31° E, 57.63° N27.3° E, 57.6° N12 km short8 mi short
Northernmost25.70° E, 59.67° N25.7° E, 59.7° N25.69° E, 59.65° N25.7° E, 59.6° N2 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 57% of the crowd’s lines run inside Estonia. Near the coast, 48% 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.

Estonia and Russia: 256 km in the game, 324 km officially.

Estonia’s coast: 1,344 km in the game, 3,794 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Russia256 km in the game324 km officially241 km the crowd’s5.9% shorter
Latvia217 km in the game333 km officially214 km the crowd’s1.4% shorter
The coast1,344 km in the game3,794 km officially1,243 km the crowd’s7.5% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Estonia: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Estonia 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 787 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.

5 small pieces of Estonia, 348 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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