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How the crowd draws

442 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Nepal

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area147,000 km²57,000 sq mi134,000 km²52,000 sq mi9.2% smaller
Outline2,221 km1,380 mi2,182 km1,356 mi1.8% shorter
Centre83.95° E, 28.26° N83.9° E, 28.3° N83.91° E, 28.43° N83.9° E, 28.4° N19 km north12 mi north
Westernmost80.05° E, 28.87° N80.1° E, 28.9° N80.16° E, 29.03° N80.2° E, 29.0° N11 km short7 mi short
Easternmost88.16° E, 26.73° N88.2° E, 26.7° N88.10° E, 27.80° N88.1° E, 27.8° N6 km short4 mi short
Southernmost87.28° E, 26.36° N87.3° E, 26.4° N87.60° E, 26.70° N87.6° E, 26.7° N38 km short23 mi short
Northernmost81.64° E, 30.39° N81.6° E, 30.4° N81.42° E, 30.33° N81.4° E, 30.3° N6 km short4 mi short

Near the land border, 60% of the crowd’s lines run inside Nepal.

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.

Nepal and India: 1,307 km in the game, 1,770 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
India1,307 km in the game1,770 km officially1,269 km the crowd’s2.9% shorter
China919 km in the game1,389 km officially916 km the crowd’s0.3% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Nepal: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Nepal 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 442 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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