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How the crowd draws

385 drawings of its land border and 724 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area96,000 km²37,000 sq mi101,000 km²39,000 sq mi5.9% bigger
Outline1,858 km1,155 mi1,820 km1,131 mi2.1% shorter
Centre9.32° W, 6.45° N9.3° W, 6.5° N9.38° W, 6.46° N9.4° W, 6.5° N6 km west4 mi west
Westernmost11.47° W, 6.91° N11.5° W, 6.9° N11.57° W, 6.94° N11.6° W, 6.9° N11 km beyond7 mi beyond
Easternmost7.39° W, 5.57° N7.4° W, 5.6° N7.39° W, 5.57° N7.4° W, 5.6° Nthe same
Southernmost7.59° W, 4.35° N7.6° W, 4.3° N7.58° W, 4.34° N7.6° W, 4.3° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost9.79° W, 8.56° N9.8° W, 8.6° N10.11° W, 8.47° N10.1° W, 8.5° N10 km short6 mi short

Near the land border, 43% of the crowd’s lines run inside Liberia. Near the coast, 40% 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.

Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire: 472 km in the game, 778 km officially.

Liberia’s coast: 605 km in the game, 579 km officially.

3 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Côte d'Ivoire472 km in the game778 km officially456 km the crowd’s3.4% shorter
Guinea375 km in the game590 km officially357 km the crowd’s4.8% shorter
Sierra Leone233 km in the game299 km officially259 km the crowd’s11.2% longer
The coast605 km in the game579 km officially565 km the crowd’s6.6% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Liberia: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Liberia 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 1,109 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 1,109.

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