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How the crowd draws

686 drawings of its land border, 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
Area2,599 km²1,004 sq mi2,679 km²1,034 sq mi3.1% bigger
Outline269 km167 mi258 km160 mi4.0% shorter
Centre6.07° E, 49.77° N6.1° E, 49.8° N6.09° E, 49.76° N6.1° E, 49.8° N1 km south-east1 mi south-east
Westernmost5.72° E, 49.88° N5.7° E, 49.9° N5.76° E, 49.82° N5.8° E, 49.8° N3 km short2 mi short
Easternmost6.50° E, 49.80° N6.5° E, 49.8° N6.50° E, 49.75° N6.5° E, 49.8° Nthe same
Southernmost5.96° E, 49.44° N6.0° E, 49.4° N6.06° E, 49.45° N6.1° E, 49.4° N1 km short0 mi short
Northernmost6.00° E, 50.17° N6.0° E, 50.2° N6.00° E, 50.17° N6.0° E, 50.2° Nthe same

Near the land border, 45% of the crowd’s lines run inside Luxembourg.

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.

Luxembourg and Belgium: 111 km in the game, 130 km officially.

3 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Belgium111 km in the game130 km officially106 km the crowd’s4.5% shorter
Germany103 km in the game128 km officially96 km the crowd’s6.8% shorter
France51 km in the game69 km officially52 km the crowd’s2.0% longer

How it is measured

The crowd’s Luxembourg: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Luxembourg 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 686 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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