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How the crowd draws

1,022 drawings of its land border and 1,025 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area312,000 km²121,000 sq mi281,000 km²109,000 sq mi9.9% smaller
Outline3,026 km1,880 mi2,701 km1,678 mi10.7% shorter
Centre19.42° E, 52.11° N19.4° E, 52.1° N19.30° E, 52.14° N19.3° E, 52.1° N9 km north-west6 mi north-west
Westernmost14.13° E, 52.85° N14.1° E, 52.8° N14.30° E, 53.74° N14.3° E, 53.7° N11 km short7 mi short
Easternmost24.14° E, 50.86° N24.1° E, 50.9° N23.68° E, 50.65° N23.7° E, 50.6° N32 km short20 mi short
Southernmost22.84° E, 49.00° N22.8° E, 49.0° N22.21° E, 49.32° N22.2° E, 49.3° N36 km short22 mi short
Northernmost18.27° E, 54.84° N18.3° E, 54.8° N18.75° E, 54.63° N18.8° E, 54.6° N24 km short15 mi short

Near the land border, 65% of the crowd’s lines run inside Poland. Near the coast, 63% 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.

Poland and Czechia: 501 km in the game, 699 km officially.

Poland’s coast: 682 km in the game, 440 km officially.

7 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Czechia501 km in the game699 km officially511 km the crowd’s2.0% longer
Ukraine372 km in the game498 km officially275 km the crowd’s26.1% shorter
Germany370 km in the game467 km officially328 km the crowd’s11.4% shorter
Slovakia356 km in the game517 km officially306 km the crowd’s14.0% shorter
Belarus312 km in the game375 km officially332 km the crowd’s6.4% longer
Russia206 km in the game209 km officially209 km the crowd’s1.5% longer
Lithuania81 km in the game100 km officially71 km the crowd’s12.3% shorter
The coast682 km in the game440 km officially518 km the crowd’s24.0% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Poland: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Poland 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 2,047 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 2,047.

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