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How the crowd draws

216 drawings of its land border and 935 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 22 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Montenegro

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area14,000 km²5,290 sq mi14,000 km²5,238 sq mi1.0% smaller
Outline746 km464 mi737 km458 mi1.2% shorter
Centre19.24° E, 42.78° N19.2° E, 42.8° N19.23° E, 42.73° N19.2° E, 42.7° N6 km south4 mi south
Westernmost18.43° E, 42.95° N18.4° E, 43.0° N18.41° E, 42.56° N18.4° E, 42.6° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Easternmost20.36° E, 42.87° N20.4° E, 42.9° N20.34° E, 42.84° N20.3° E, 42.8° N2 km short1 mi short
Southernmost19.37° E, 41.85° N19.4° E, 41.9° N19.37° E, 41.84° N19.4° E, 41.8° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost19.00° E, 43.55° N19.0° E, 43.5° N18.92° E, 43.50° N18.9° E, 43.5° N5 km short3 mi short

Near the land border, 52% of the crowd’s lines run inside Montenegro. Near the coast, 30% 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.

Montenegro and Bosnia and Herz.: 206 km in the game, 242 km officially.

Montenegro’s coast: 169 km in the game, 294 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Bosnia and Herz.206 km in the game242 km officially209 km the crowd’s1.5% longer
Albania159 km in the game186 km officially191 km the crowd’s20.1% longer
Serbia140 km in the game157 km officially134 km the crowd’s4.3% shorter
Kosovo60 km in the game76 km officially71 km the crowd’s18.3% longer
Croatia18 km in the game19 km officially20 km the crowd’s11.1% longer
The coast169 km in the game294 km officially113 km the crowd’s33.1% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Montenegro: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Montenegro 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 1,151 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 1,151.

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