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How the crowd draws

510 drawings of its land border and 873 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
Area65,000 km²25,000 sq mi64,000 km²25,000 sq mi1.5% smaller
Outline1,381 km858 mi1,383 km859 mi0.1% longer
Centre23.90° E, 55.32° N23.9° E, 55.3° N23.90° E, 55.36° N23.9° E, 55.4° N4 km north2 mi north
Westernmost20.90° E, 55.29° N20.9° E, 55.3° N20.94° E, 55.25° N20.9° E, 55.3° N2 km short1 mi short
Easternmost26.80° E, 55.27° N26.8° E, 55.3° N26.74° E, 55.29° N26.7° E, 55.3° N4 km short2 mi short
Southernmost24.37° E, 53.89° N24.4° E, 53.9° N23.55° E, 53.98° N23.6° E, 54.0° N10 km short6 mi short
Northernmost24.88° E, 56.44° N24.9° E, 56.4° N22.92° E, 56.40° N22.9° E, 56.4° N4 km short3 mi short

Near the land border, 52% of the crowd’s lines run inside Lithuania. Near the coast, 60% 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.

Lithuania and Belarus: 426 km in the game, 640 km officially.

Lithuania’s coast: 107 km in the game, 90 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Belarus426 km in the game640 km officially430 km the crowd’s0.9% longer
Latvia401 km in the game544 km officially381 km the crowd’s5.0% shorter
Russia183 km in the game261 km officially180 km the crowd’s1.6% shorter
Poland81 km in the game100 km officially90 km the crowd’s11.1% longer
The coast107 km in the game90 km officially99 km the crowd’s7.5% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Lithuania: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Lithuania 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 1,383 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 1,383.

One small piece of Lithuania, 130 km², keeps its 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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