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How the crowd draws

638 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Hungary

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area93,000 km²36,000 sq mi92,000 km²35,000 sq mi1.3% smaller
Outline1,483 km921 mi1,418 km881 mi4.4% shorter
Centre19.38° E, 47.17° N19.4° E, 47.2° N19.43° E, 47.16° N19.4° E, 47.2° N4 km east2 mi east
Westernmost16.10° E, 46.87° N16.1° E, 46.9° N16.26° E, 46.90° N16.3° E, 46.9° N13 km short8 mi short
Easternmost22.87° E, 47.94° N22.9° E, 47.9° N22.84° E, 47.95° N22.8° E, 47.9° N3 km short2 mi short
Southernmost18.36° E, 45.75° N18.4° E, 45.8° N18.44° E, 45.83° N18.4° E, 45.8° N9 km short5 mi short
Northernmost21.38° E, 48.55° N21.4° E, 48.6° N20.58° E, 48.45° N20.6° E, 48.5° N11 km short7 mi short

Near the land border, 53% of the crowd’s lines run inside Hungary.

Borders

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.

Hungary and Slovakia: 447 km in the game, 627 km officially.

7 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Slovakia447 km in the game627 km officially439 km the crowd’s1.8% shorter
Romania325 km in the game424 km officially327 km the crowd’s0.6% longer
Croatia224 km in the game348 km officially210 km the crowd’s6.3% shorter
Austria224 km in the game321 km officially198 km the crowd’s11.6% shorter
Serbia118 km in the game164 km officially114 km the crowd’s3.4% shorter
Ukraine88 km in the game128 km officially83 km the crowd’s5.7% shorter
Slovenia60 km in the game94 km officially52 km the crowd’s13.3% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Hungary: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Hungary 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 638 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.

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