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How the crowd draws

370 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw North Macedonia

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area25,000 km²9,787 sq mi25,000 km²9,497 sq mi3.0% smaller
Outline721 km448 mi678 km421 mi6.0% shorter
Centre21.68° E, 41.59° N21.7° E, 41.6° N21.72° E, 41.61° N21.7° E, 41.6° N3 km north-east2 mi north-east
Westernmost20.44° E, 41.55° N20.4° E, 41.5° N20.54° E, 41.53° N20.5° E, 41.5° N8 km short5 mi short
Easternmost23.01° E, 41.74° N23.0° E, 41.7° N23.00° E, 41.73° N23.0° E, 41.7° N1 km short0 mi short
Southernmost20.97° E, 40.85° N21.0° E, 40.8° N21.29° E, 40.88° N21.3° E, 40.9° N3 km short2 mi short
Northernmost22.27° E, 42.37° N22.3° E, 42.4° N22.25° E, 42.33° N22.2° E, 42.3° N4 km short3 mi short

Near the land border, 53% of the crowd’s lines run inside North Macedonia.

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.

North Macedonia and Greece: 215 km in the game, 234 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Greece215 km in the game234 km officially202 km the crowd’s6.0% shorter
Albania157 km in the game181 km officially142 km the crowd’s9.6% shorter
Bulgaria143 km in the game162 km officially140 km the crowd’s2.1% shorter
Kosovo133 km in the game160 km officially126 km the crowd’s5.3% shorter
Serbia74 km in the game101 km officially68 km the crowd’s8.1% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s North Macedonia: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside North Macedonia 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 370 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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