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How the crowd draws

719 drawings of its land border and 409 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area27,000 km²10,000 sq mi27,000 km²11,000 sq mi2.9% bigger
Outline1,582 km983 mi1,470 km914 mi7.1% shorter
Centre72.69° W, 18.93° N72.7° W, 18.9° N72.62° W, 18.87° N72.6° W, 18.9° N10 km south-east6 mi south-east
Westernmost74.49° W, 18.43° N74.5° W, 18.4° N74.44° W, 18.43° N74.4° W, 18.4° N5 km short3 mi short
Easternmost71.64° W, 19.21° N71.6° W, 19.2° N71.69° W, 19.19° N71.7° W, 19.2° N5 km short3 mi short
Southernmost73.87° W, 18.03° N73.9° W, 18.0° N71.78° W, 18.02° N71.8° W, 18.0° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost72.80° W, 19.95° N72.8° W, 19.9° N73.14° W, 19.85° N73.1° W, 19.8° N11 km short7 mi short

Near the land border, 49% of the crowd’s lines run inside Haiti. Near the coast, 47% 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.

Haiti and Dominican Rep.: 261 km in the game, 376 km officially.

Haiti’s coast: 1,347 km in the game, 1,771 km officially.

1 neighbour
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Dominican Rep.261 km in the game376 km officially215 km the crowd’s17.6% shorter
The coast1,347 km in the game1,771 km officially1,275 km the crowd’s5.3% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Haiti: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Haiti 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 1,128 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 1,128.

3 small pieces of Haiti, 269 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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