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How the crowd draws

566 drawings of its land border and 746 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
Area64,000 km²25,000 sq mi64,000 km²25,000 sq mi0.2% smaller
Outline1,554 km966 mi1,399 km869 mi10.0% shorter
Centre24.92° E, 56.86° N24.9° E, 56.9° N24.93° E, 56.88° N24.9° E, 56.9° N3 km north2 mi north
Westernmost20.97° E, 56.37° N21.0° E, 56.4° N21.06° E, 56.23° N21.1° E, 56.2° N6 km short4 mi short
Easternmost28.22° E, 56.27° N28.2° E, 56.3° N28.08° E, 56.27° N28.1° E, 56.3° N9 km short5 mi short
Southernmost26.58° E, 55.67° N26.6° E, 55.7° N26.54° E, 55.79° N26.5° E, 55.8° N14 km short9 mi short
Northernmost25.26° E, 58.08° N25.3° E, 58.1° N25.11° E, 58.02° N25.1° E, 58.0° N6 km short4 mi short

Near the land border, 49% of the crowd’s lines run inside Latvia. Near the coast, 54% 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.

Latvia and Lithuania: 402 km in the game, 544 km officially.

Latvia’s coast: 523 km in the game, 498 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Lithuania402 km in the game544 km officially367 km the crowd’s8.7% shorter
Estonia217 km in the game333 km officially195 km the crowd’s10.1% shorter
Russia199 km in the game332 km officially187 km the crowd’s6.0% shorter
Belarus122 km in the game161 km officially116 km the crowd’s4.9% shorter
The coast523 km in the game498 km officially450 km the crowd’s14.0% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Latvia: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Latvia 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 1,312 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 1,312.

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