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How the crowd draws

282 drawings of its land border and 847 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 22 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Guatemala

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area109,000 km²42,000 sq mi108,000 km²42,000 sq mi1.5% smaller
Outline1,906 km1,184 mi1,785 km1,109 mi6.3% shorter
Centre90.36° W, 15.69° N90.4° W, 15.7° N90.37° W, 15.70° N90.4° W, 15.7° N2 km north-west1 mi north-west
Westernmost92.24° W, 14.54° N92.2° W, 14.5° N92.25° W, 14.54° N92.3° W, 14.5° N1 km beyond0 mi beyond
Easternmost88.23° W, 15.73° N88.2° W, 15.7° N88.30° W, 15.76° N88.3° W, 15.8° N8 km short5 mi short
Southernmost90.11° W, 13.74° N90.1° W, 13.7° N90.10° W, 13.71° N90.1° W, 13.7° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost90.91° W, 17.82° N90.9° W, 17.8° N89.83° W, 17.83° N89.8° W, 17.8° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond

Near the land border, 55% of the crowd’s lines run inside Guatemala. Near the coast, 52% 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.

Guatemala and Mexico: 818 km in the game, 958 km officially.

Guatemala’s coast: 403 km in the game, 400 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Mexico818 km in the game958 km officially776 km the crowd’s5.1% shorter
Belize250 km in the game266 km officially247 km the crowd’s1.2% shorter
Honduras207 km in the game244 km officially202 km the crowd’s2.4% shorter
El Salvador130 km in the game199 km officially129 km the crowd’s0.8% shorter
The coast403 km in the game400 km officially333 km the crowd’s17.4% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Guatemala: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Guatemala 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 1,129 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 1,129.

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