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How the crowd draws

465 drawings of its land border and 866 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Lebanon

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area10,000 km²3,862 sq mi9,307 km²3,594 sq mi7.0% smaller
Outline617 km383 mi574 km357 mi7.0% shorter
Centre35.88° E, 33.92° N35.9° E, 33.9° N35.83° E, 33.89° N35.8° E, 33.9° N5 km south-west3 mi south-west
Westernmost35.10° E, 33.10° N35.1° E, 33.1° N35.10° E, 33.10° N35.1° E, 33.1° Nthe same
Easternmost36.60° E, 34.20° N36.6° E, 34.2° N36.50° E, 34.41° N36.5° E, 34.4° N10 km short6 mi short
Southernmost35.35° E, 33.06° N35.3° E, 33.1° N35.35° E, 33.08° N35.3° E, 33.1° N3 km short2 mi short
Northernmost36.31° E, 34.69° N36.3° E, 34.7° N35.96° E, 34.66° N36.0° E, 34.7° N3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 58% of the crowd’s lines run inside Lebanon. 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.

Lebanon and Syria: 322 km in the game, 403 km officially.

Lebanon’s coast: 227 km in the game, 225 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Syria322 km in the game403 km officially283 km the crowd’s12.1% shorter
Israel69 km in the game81 km officially68 km the crowd’s1.4% shorter
The coast227 km in the game225 km officially212 km the crowd’s6.6% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Lebanon: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Lebanon 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 1,331 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 1,331.

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