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How the crowd draws

312 drawings of its land border and 898 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
Area588,000 km²227,000 sq mi607,000 km²234,000 sq mi3.1% bigger
Outline3,976 km2,470 mi3,899 km2,422 mi1.9% shorter
Centre37.82° E, 0.55° N37.8° E, 0.6° N37.94° E, 0.55° N37.9° E, 0.5° N13 km east8 mi east
Westernmost33.89° E, 0.10° N33.9° E, 0.1° N34.00° E, 0.08° N34.0° E, 0.1° N13 km short8 mi short
Easternmost41.88° E, 3.97° N41.9° E, 4.0° N41.79° E, 3.88° N41.8° E, 3.9° N10 km short6 mi short
Southernmost39.19° E, 4.67° S39.2° E, 4.7° S39.21° E, 4.65° S39.2° E, 4.7° S2 km short1 mi short
Northernmost35.41° E, 5.03° N35.4° E, 5.0° N35.41° E, 5.03° N35.4° E, 5.0° Nthe same

Near the land border, 44% of the crowd’s lines run inside Kenya. Near the coast, 42% 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.

Kenya and Ethiopia: 896 km in the game, 867 km officially.

Kenya’s coast: 748 km in the game, 536 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Ethiopia896 km in the game867 km officially932 km the crowd’s4.0% longer
Tanzania751 km in the game775 km officially731 km the crowd’s2.7% shorter
Somalia688 km in the game684 km officially680 km the crowd’s1.2% shorter
Uganda680 km in the game814 km officially699 km the crowd’s2.8% longer
S. Sudan200 km in the game175 km the crowd’s12.5% shorter
The coast748 km in the game536 km officially599 km the crowd’s19.9% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Kenya: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Kenya 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 1,210 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 1,210.

One small piece of Kenya, 171 km², keeps its 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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