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How the crowd draws

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

Draw Eswatini

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area17,000 km²6,620 sq mi17,000 km²6,614 sq mi0.1% smaller
Outline540 km335 mi523 km325 mi3.2% shorter
Centre31.48° E, 26.56° S31.5° E, 26.6° S31.46° E, 26.57° S31.5° E, 26.6° S2 km west1 mi west
Westernmost30.78° E, 26.48° S30.8° E, 26.5° S30.76° E, 26.71° S30.8° E, 26.7° S3 km beyond2 mi beyond
Easternmost32.12° E, 26.61° S32.1° E, 26.6° S32.10° E, 26.50° S32.1° E, 26.5° S2 km short1 mi short
Southernmost31.88° E, 27.32° S31.9° E, 27.3° S31.47° E, 27.30° S31.5° E, 27.3° S1 km short1 mi short
Northernmost31.38° E, 25.74° S31.4° E, 25.7° S31.38° E, 25.77° S31.4° E, 25.8° S3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 50% of the crowd’s lines run inside Eswatini.

Borders

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.

Eswatini and South Africa: 428 km in the game, 438 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
South Africa428 km in the game438 km officially419 km the crowd’s2.1% shorter
Mozambique109 km in the game108 km officially101 km the crowd’s7.3% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Eswatini: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Eswatini 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 124 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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