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How the crowd draws

857 drawings of its land border and 889 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
Area236,000 km²91,000 sq mi237,000 km²92,000 sq mi0.6% bigger
Outline2,747 km1,707 mi2,491 km1,548 mi9.3% shorter
Centre24.98° E, 45.85° N25.0° E, 45.8° N25.02° E, 45.87° N25.0° E, 45.9° N3 km north-east2 mi north-east
Westernmost20.25° E, 46.10° N20.2° E, 46.1° N20.31° E, 46.12° N20.3° E, 46.1° N5 km short3 mi short
Easternmost29.69° E, 45.16° N29.7° E, 45.2° N29.67° E, 45.16° N29.7° E, 45.2° N2 km short1 mi short
Southernmost25.40° E, 43.65° N25.4° E, 43.7° N25.38° E, 43.67° N25.4° E, 43.7° N2 km short2 mi short
Northernmost26.68° E, 48.27° N26.7° E, 48.3° N26.68° E, 48.23° N26.7° E, 48.2° N4 km short3 mi short

Near the land border, 50% of the crowd’s lines run inside Romania. Near the coast, 38% 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.

Romania and Bulgaria: 556 km in the game, 605 km officially.

Romania’s coast: 469 km in the game, 225 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Bulgaria556 km in the game605 km officially554 km the crowd’s0.4% shorter
Ukraine475 km in the game601 km officially464 km the crowd’s2.3% shorter
Serbia415 km in the game531 km officially385 km the crowd’s7.2% shorter
Moldova366 km in the game683 km officially366 km the crowd’sthe same
Hungary323 km in the game424 km officially329 km the crowd’s1.9% longer
The coast469 km in the game225 km officially218 km the crowd’s53.5% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Romania: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Romania 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 1,746 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 1,746.

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