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How the crowd draws

449 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Slovakia

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area48,000 km²19,000 sq mi48,000 km²19,000 sq mi0.0% smaller
Outline1,150 km714 mi1,119 km695 mi2.7% shorter
Centre19.47° E, 48.71° N19.5° E, 48.7° N19.46° E, 48.71° N19.5° E, 48.7° N1 km south-west1 mi south-west
Westernmost16.86° E, 48.40° N16.9° E, 48.4° N16.90° E, 48.40° N16.9° E, 48.4° N3 km short2 mi short
Easternmost22.54° E, 49.07° N22.5° E, 49.1° N22.51° E, 49.06° N22.5° E, 49.1° N2 km short1 mi short
Southernmost18.13° E, 47.76° N18.1° E, 47.8° N18.16° E, 47.78° N18.2° E, 47.8° N2 km short1 mi short
Northernmost19.44° E, 49.60° N19.4° E, 49.6° N19.44° E, 49.55° N19.4° E, 49.5° N5 km short3 mi short

Near the land border, 52% of the crowd’s lines run inside Slovakia.

Borders

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.

Slovakia and Hungary: 447 km in the game, 627 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Hungary447 km in the game627 km officially431 km the crowd’s3.6% shorter
Poland356 km in the game517 km officially361 km the crowd’s1.4% longer
Czechia192 km in the game241 km officially177 km the crowd’s7.8% shorter
Ukraine83 km in the game97 km officially83 km the crowd’sthe same
Austria73 km in the game105 km officially69 km the crowd’s5.5% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Slovakia: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Slovakia 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 449 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.

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