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How the crowd draws

241 drawings of its land border and 723 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 22 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Kuwait

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area17,000 km²6,722 sq mi17,000 km²6,740 sq mi0.3% bigger
Outline844 km524 mi818 km508 mi3.0% shorter
Centre47.59° E, 29.34° N47.6° E, 29.3° N47.57° E, 29.37° N47.6° E, 29.4° N4 km north-west3 mi north-west
Westernmost46.53° E, 29.10° N46.5° E, 29.1° N46.52° E, 29.09° N46.5° E, 29.1° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Easternmost48.43° E, 28.54° N48.4° E, 28.5° N48.44° E, 28.54° N48.4° E, 28.5° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Southernmost47.73° E, 28.53° N47.7° E, 28.5° N48.44° E, 28.54° N48.4° E, 28.5° N1 km short1 mi short
Northernmost47.49° E, 30.10° N47.5° E, 30.1° N47.71° E, 30.11° N47.7° E, 30.1° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond

Near the land border, 50% of the crowd’s lines run inside Kuwait. 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.

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia: 221 km in the game, 221 km officially.

Kuwait’s coast: 429 km in the game, 499 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Saudi Arabia221 km in the game221 km officially221 km the crowd’sthe same
Iraq202 km in the game254 km officially208 km the crowd’s3.0% longer
The coast429 km in the game499 km officially392 km the crowd’s8.6% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Kuwait: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Kuwait 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 964 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.

2 small pieces of Kuwait, 87 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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