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How the crowd draws

646 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 18 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Moldova

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area33,000 km²13,000 sq mi31,000 km²12,000 sq mi7.3% smaller
Outline1,092 km678 mi1,100 km684 mi0.8% longer
Centre28.47° E, 47.19° N28.5° E, 47.2° N28.38° E, 47.21° N28.4° E, 47.2° N7 km west4 mi west
Westernmost26.62° E, 48.26° N26.6° E, 48.3° N26.66° E, 48.27° N26.7° E, 48.3° N3 km short2 mi short
Easternmost30.13° E, 46.42° N30.1° E, 46.4° N30.12° E, 46.42° N30.1° E, 46.4° N1 km short1 mi short
Southernmost28.21° E, 45.45° N28.2° E, 45.5° N28.22° E, 45.47° N28.2° E, 45.5° N2 km short1 mi short
Northernmost27.55° E, 48.48° N27.5° E, 48.5° N27.32° E, 48.52° N27.3° E, 48.5° N5 km beyond3 mi beyond

Near the land border, 59% of the crowd’s lines run inside Moldova.

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.

Moldova and Ukraine: 726 km in the game, 1,202 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Ukraine726 km in the game1,202 km officially744 km the crowd’s2.5% longer
Romania367 km in the game683 km officially359 km the crowd’s2.2% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Moldova: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Moldova 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 646 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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