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How the crowd draws

1,154 drawings of its land border and 340 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Qatar

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area11,000 km²4,313 sq mi9,784 km²3,777 sq mi12.4% smaller
Outline598 km372 mi489 km304 mi18.2% shorter
Centre51.19° E, 25.31° N51.2° E, 25.3° N51.17° E, 25.32° N51.2° E, 25.3° N2 km west1 mi west
Westernmost50.75° E, 25.42° N50.8° E, 25.4° N50.80° E, 24.75° N50.8° E, 24.8° N5 km short3 mi short
Easternmost51.62° E, 25.22° N51.6° E, 25.2° N51.57° E, 25.27° N51.6° E, 25.3° N4 km short3 mi short
Southernmost51.04° E, 24.56° N51.0° E, 24.6° N51.12° E, 24.55° N51.1° E, 24.5° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost51.25° E, 26.16° N51.3° E, 26.2° N51.25° E, 26.12° N51.3° E, 26.1° N4 km short3 mi short

Near the land border, 54% of the crowd’s lines run inside Qatar. Near the coast, 62% 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.

Qatar and Saudi Arabia: 53 km in the game, 87 km officially.

Qatar’s coast: 545 km in the game, 563 km officially.

1 neighbour
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Saudi Arabia53 km in the game87 km officially55 km the crowd’s3.8% longer
The coast545 km in the game563 km officially433 km the crowd’s20.6% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Qatar: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Qatar 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 1,494 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 1,494.

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