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How the crowd draws

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

Draw Kyrgyzstan

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area199,000 km²77,000 sq mi191,000 km²74,000 sq mi3.9% smaller
Outline3,143 km1,953 mi3,122 km1,940 mi0.7% shorter
Centre74.50° E, 41.47° N74.5° E, 41.5° N74.74° E, 41.52° N74.7° E, 41.5° N20 km east13 mi east
Westernmost69.23° E, 39.76° N69.2° E, 39.8° N69.31° E, 39.95° N69.3° E, 39.9° N7 km short4 mi short
Easternmost80.24° E, 42.06° N80.2° E, 42.1° N80.17° E, 42.08° N80.2° E, 42.1° N6 km short4 mi short
Southernmost72.22° E, 39.21° N72.2° E, 39.2° N72.21° E, 39.49° N72.2° E, 39.5° N31 km short19 mi short
Northernmost74.22° E, 43.24° N74.2° E, 43.2° N74.21° E, 43.13° N74.2° E, 43.1° N12 km short7 mi short

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

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.

Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: 934 km in the game, 1,212 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Kazakhstan934 km in the game1,212 km officially858 km the crowd’s8.1% shorter
China782 km in the game1,063 km officially740 km the crowd’s5.4% shorter
Uzbekistan759 km in the game1,314 km officially856 km the crowd’s12.8% longer
Tajikistan685 km in the game984 km officially687 km the crowd’s0.3% longer

How it is measured

The crowd’s Kyrgyzstan: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Kyrgyzstan 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 288 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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