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How the crowd draws

856 drawings of its land border and 861 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area21,000 km²7,994 sq mi21,000 km²7,922 sq mi0.9% smaller
Outline1,170 km727 mi1,194 km742 mi2.0% longer
Centre34.95° E, 31.34° N34.9° E, 31.3° N34.95° E, 31.34° N35.0° E, 31.3° N0 km east0 mi east
Westernmost34.25° E, 31.21° N34.2° E, 31.2° N34.28° E, 31.21° N34.3° E, 31.2° N2 km short2 mi short
Easternmost35.67° E, 33.16° N35.7° E, 33.2° N35.63° E, 33.06° N35.6° E, 33.1° N4 km short2 mi short
Southernmost34.89° E, 29.49° N34.9° E, 29.5° N34.91° E, 29.50° N34.9° E, 29.5° N1 km short1 mi short
Northernmost35.56° E, 33.28° N35.6° E, 33.3° N35.56° E, 33.24° N35.6° E, 33.2° N4 km short3 mi short

Near the land border, 50% of the crowd’s lines run inside Israel. Near the coast, 44% 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.

Israel and Jordan: 256 km in the game, 327 km officially.

Israel’s coast: 199 km in the game, 273 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Palestine324 km in the game357 km the crowd’s10.2% longer
Jordan256 km in the game327 km officially254 km the crowd’s0.8% shorter
Egypt202 km in the game208 km officially198 km the crowd’s2.0% shorter
Syria79 km in the game83 km officially70 km the crowd’s11.4% shorter
Lebanon60 km in the game81 km officially64 km the crowd’s6.7% longer
The coast199 km in the game273 km officially193 km the crowd’s3.0% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Israel: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Israel 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 1,717 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 1,717.

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