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How the crowd draws

1,012 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 23 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Greenland

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area2,086,000 km²805,000 sq mi1,995,000 km²770,000 sq mi4.4% smaller
Outline23,030 km14,310 mi15,386 km9,560 mi33.2% shorter
Centre41.84° W, 73.15° N41.8° W, 73.1° N41.97° W, 73.24° N42.0° W, 73.2° N11 km north-west7 mi north-west
Westernmost72.97° W, 78.18° N73.0° W, 78.2° N71.60° W, 78.26° N71.6° W, 78.3° N31 km short19 mi short
Easternmost11.70° W, 81.51° N11.7° W, 81.5° N14.62° W, 81.42° N14.6° W, 81.4° N48 km short30 mi short
Southernmost44.55° W, 60.01° N44.6° W, 60.0° N43.47° W, 60.18° N43.5° W, 60.2° N20 km short12 mi short
Northernmost33.63° W, 83.60° N33.6° W, 83.6° N33.44° W, 83.39° N33.4° W, 83.4° N23 km short14 mi short

Near the coast, 62% run inland.

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.

Greenland’s coast: 34,423 km in the game, 44,087 km officially.

Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
The coast34,423 km in the game44,087 km officially22,786 km the crowd’s33.8% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Greenland: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Greenland 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 1,012 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 1,012.

127 small pieces of Greenland, 42,000 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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