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How the crowd draws

321 drawings of its land border and 812 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 21 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area74,000 km²28,000 sq mi74,000 km²29,000 sq mi1.0% bigger
Outline3,218 km2,000 mi3,281 km2,039 mi2.0% longer
Centre80.11° W, 8.53° N80.1° W, 8.5° N80.27° W, 8.48° N80.3° W, 8.5° N18 km west11 mi west
Westernmost83.05° W, 8.33° N83.1° W, 8.3° N83.06° W, 8.33° N83.1° W, 8.3° Nthe same
Easternmost77.17° W, 7.94° N77.2° W, 7.9° N77.08° W, 7.93° N77.1° W, 7.9° N9 km beyond6 mi beyond
Southernmost80.87° W, 7.21° N80.9° W, 7.2° N77.84° W, 7.12° N77.8° W, 7.1° N10 km beyond6 mi beyond
Northernmost79.55° W, 9.63° N79.6° W, 9.6° N82.55° W, 9.57° N82.6° W, 9.6° N6 km short4 mi short

Near the land border, 47% of the crowd’s lines run inside Panama. Near the coast, 48% 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.

Panama and Costa Rica: 249 km in the game, 348 km officially.

Panama’s coast: 2,838 km in the game, 2,490 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Costa Rica249 km in the game348 km officially245 km the crowd’s1.6% shorter
Colombia245 km in the game339 km officially304 km the crowd’s24.1% longer
The coast2,838 km in the game2,490 km officially2,800 km the crowd’s1.3% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Panama: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Panama 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 1,133 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 1,133.

14 small pieces of Panama, 1,154 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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