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How the crowd draws

338 drawings of its land border and 945 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Ghana

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area240,000 km²93,000 sq mi217,000 km²84,000 sq mi9.3% smaller
Outline2,552 km1,586 mi2,431 km1,511 mi4.7% shorter
Centre1.22° W, 7.95° N1.2° W, 7.9° N1.19° W, 8.05° N1.2° W, 8.0° N12 km north7 mi north
Westernmost3.26° W, 6.62° N3.3° W, 6.6° N3.05° W, 6.79° N3.1° W, 6.8° N23 km short15 mi short
Easternmost1.19° E, 6.12° N1.2° E, 6.1° N0.96° E, 5.97° N1.0° E, 6.0° N26 km short16 mi short
Southernmost2.09° W, 4.74° N2.1° W, 4.7° N1.91° W, 5.08° N1.9° W, 5.1° N38 km short24 mi short
Northernmost0.29° W, 11.16° N0.3° W, 11.2° N0.02° W, 11.04° N0.0° W, 11.0° N14 km short9 mi short

Near the land border, 58% of the crowd’s lines run inside Ghana. Near the coast, 82% 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.

Ghana and Togo: 720 km in the game, 1,098 km officially.

Ghana’s coast: 590 km in the game, 539 km officially.

3 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Togo720 km in the game1,098 km officially714 km the crowd’s0.8% shorter
Côte d'Ivoire575 km in the game720 km officially569 km the crowd’s1.0% shorter
Burkina Faso502 km in the game602 km officially463 km the crowd’s7.8% shorter
The coast590 km in the game539 km officially520 km the crowd’s11.9% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Ghana: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Ghana 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 1,283 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 1,283.

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