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How the crowd draws

563 drawings of its land border and 719 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area311,000 km²120,000 sq mi305,000 km²118,000 sq mi2.1% smaller
Outline3,371 km2,095 mi3,243 km2,015 mi3.8% shorter
Centre56.06° E, 20.58° N56.1° E, 20.6° N55.96° E, 20.50° N56.0° E, 20.5° N14 km south-west9 mi south-west
Westernmost51.98° E, 18.99° N52.0° E, 19.0° N52.02° E, 18.97° N52.0° E, 19.0° N4 km short3 mi short
Easternmost59.84° E, 22.44° N59.8° E, 22.4° N59.72° E, 22.43° N59.7° E, 22.4° N13 km short8 mi short
Southernmost53.09° E, 16.64° N53.1° E, 16.6° N53.01° E, 16.53° N53.0° E, 16.5° N12 km beyond8 mi beyond
Northernmost56.38° E, 26.36° N56.4° E, 26.4° N56.38° E, 26.36° N56.4° E, 26.4° Nthe same

Near the land border, 49% of the crowd’s lines run inside Oman. Near the coast, 55% 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.

Oman and Saudi Arabia: 655 km in the game, 658 km officially.

Oman’s coast: 1,786 km in the game, 2,092 km officially.

3 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Saudi Arabia655 km in the game658 km officially629 km the crowd’s4.0% shorter
United Arab Emirates509 km in the game609 km officially503 km the crowd’s1.2% shorter
Yemen289 km in the game294 km officially299 km the crowd’s3.5% longer
The coast1,786 km in the game2,092 km officially1,647 km the crowd’s7.8% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Oman: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Oman 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 1,282 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 1,282.

5 small pieces of Oman, 2,405 km² in all, keep their real shape, shown flat: islands no round asks players to draw, or too small to measure. They count in no figure.

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