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How the crowd draws

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

Draw Jordan

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area89,000 km²34,000 sq mi79,000 km²31,000 sq mi11.0% smaller
Outline1,636 km1,016 mi1,543 km959 mi5.7% shorter
Centre36.76° E, 31.24° N36.8° E, 31.2° N36.75° E, 31.22° N36.8° E, 31.2° N2 km south1 mi south
Westernmost34.95° E, 29.35° N35.0° E, 29.4° N34.96° E, 29.40° N35.0° E, 29.4° N1 km short1 mi short
Easternmost39.29° E, 32.25° N39.3° E, 32.2° N38.96° E, 32.17° N39.0° E, 32.2° N31 km short19 mi short
Southernmost36.01° E, 29.19° N36.0° E, 29.2° N35.10° E, 29.40° N35.1° E, 29.4° N23 km short14 mi short
Northernmost38.77° E, 33.37° N38.8° E, 33.4° N38.74° E, 33.27° N38.7° E, 33.3° N11 km short7 mi short

Near the land border, 62% of the crowd’s lines run inside Jordan.

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.

Jordan and Saudi Arabia: 728 km in the game, 731 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Saudi Arabia728 km in the game731 km officially688 km the crowd’s5.5% shorter
Syria348 km in the game379 km officially335 km the crowd’s3.7% shorter
Israel255 km in the game307 km officially245 km the crowd’s3.9% shorter
Iraq179 km in the game179 km officially135 km the crowd’s24.6% shorter
Palestine104 km in the game103 km the crowd’s1.0% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Jordan: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Jordan 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 492 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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