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How the crowd draws

935 drawings of its land border and 532 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Greece

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area119,000 km²46,000 sq mi126,000 km²49,000 sq mi6.2% bigger
Outline5,561 km3,455 mi4,655 km2,892 mi16.3% shorter
Centre22.77° E, 39.14° N22.8° E, 39.1° N22.69° E, 39.21° N22.7° E, 39.2° N11 km north-west7 mi north-west
Westernmost20.02° E, 39.69° N20.0° E, 39.7° N19.97° E, 39.66° N20.0° E, 39.7° N4 km beyond2 mi beyond
Easternmost26.63° E, 41.40° N26.6° E, 41.4° N26.59° E, 41.36° N26.6° E, 41.4° N4 km short2 mi short
Southernmost24.75° E, 34.93° N24.7° E, 34.9° N24.78° E, 34.96° N24.8° E, 35.0° N3 km short2 mi short
Northernmost26.21° E, 41.75° N26.2° E, 41.8° N26.04° E, 41.69° N26.0° E, 41.7° N7 km short4 mi short

Near the land border, 45% of the crowd’s lines run inside Greece. Near the coast, 46% 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.

Greece and Bulgaria: 355 km in the game, 472 km officially.

Greece’s coast: 5,174 km in the game, 13,676 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Bulgaria355 km in the game472 km officially364 km the crowd’s2.5% longer
Albania194 km in the game212 km officially145 km the crowd’s25.3% shorter
Macedonia194 km in the game234 km officially185 km the crowd’s4.6% shorter
Turkey153 km in the game192 km officially146 km the crowd’s4.6% shorter
The coast5,174 km in the game13,676 km officially4,184 km the crowd’s19.1% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Greece: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Greece 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 1,467 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 1,467.

71 small pieces of Greece, 13,000 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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