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How the crowd draws

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

Draw Switzerland

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area41,000 km²16,000 sq mi39,000 km²15,000 sq mi4.5% smaller
Outline1,261 km784 mi1,278 km794 mi1.3% longer
Centre8.21° E, 46.80° N8.2° E, 46.8° N8.21° E, 46.80° N8.2° E, 46.8° N1 km north-east0 mi north-east
Westernmost5.97° E, 46.21° N6.0° E, 46.2° N5.98° E, 46.15° N6.0° E, 46.2° Nthe same
Easternmost10.46° E, 46.90° N10.5° E, 46.9° N10.43° E, 46.55° N10.4° E, 46.6° N2 km short1 mi short
Southernmost8.96° E, 45.83° N9.0° E, 45.8° N8.94° E, 45.88° N8.9° E, 45.9° N5 km short3 mi short
Northernmost8.57° E, 47.77° N8.6° E, 47.8° N8.57° E, 47.69° N8.6° E, 47.7° N9 km short6 mi short

Near the land border, 54% of the crowd’s lines run inside Switzerland.

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.

Switzerland and Italy: 522 km in the game, 698 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Italy522 km in the game698 km officially547 km the crowd’s4.8% longer
France395 km in the game525 km officially408 km the crowd’s3.3% longer
Germany190 km in the game348 km officially164 km the crowd’s13.7% shorter
Austria127 km in the game158 km officially134 km the crowd’s5.5% longer
Liechtenstein29 km in the game28 km the crowd’s3.4% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Switzerland: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Switzerland 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 774 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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