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How the crowd draws

550 drawings of its land border and 686 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Suriname

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area146,000 km²56,000 sq mi136,000 km²53,000 sq mi6.7% smaller
Outline2,037 km1,266 mi1,938 km1,204 mi4.9% shorter
Centre55.91° W, 4.13° N55.9° W, 4.1° N55.92° W, 4.07° N55.9° W, 4.1° N6 km south4 mi south
Westernmost58.07° W, 4.17° N58.1° W, 4.2° N58.02° W, 4.16° N58.0° W, 4.2° N6 km short3 mi short
Easternmost53.99° W, 3.61° N54.0° W, 3.6° N54.01° W, 3.60° N54.0° W, 3.6° N3 km short2 mi short
Southernmost56.02° W, 1.83° N56.0° W, 1.8° N56.00° W, 1.93° N56.0° W, 1.9° N11 km short7 mi short
Northernmost56.95° W, 6.01° N57.0° W, 6.0° N55.90° W, 5.90° N55.9° W, 5.9° N13 km short8 mi short

Near the land border, 54% of the crowd’s lines run inside Suriname. Near the coast, 79% 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.

Suriname and Guyana: 568 km in the game, 836 km officially.

Suriname’s coast: 608 km in the game, 386 km officially.

3 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Guyana568 km in the game836 km officially546 km the crowd’s3.9% shorter
France398 km in the game556 km officially384 km the crowd’s3.5% shorter
Brazil331 km in the game515 km officially335 km the crowd’s1.2% longer
The coast608 km in the game386 km officially543 km the crowd’s10.7% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Suriname: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Suriname 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 1,236 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 1,236.

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