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How the crowd draws

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

Draw Tajikistan

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area142,000 km²55,000 sq mi142,000 km²55,000 sq mi0.0% bigger
Outline3,118 km1,937 mi3,229 km2,007 mi3.6% longer
Centre71.03° E, 38.54° N71.0° E, 38.5° N71.02° E, 38.59° N71.0° E, 38.6° N6 km north3 mi north
Westernmost67.35° E, 39.23° N67.4° E, 39.2° N67.44° E, 39.25° N67.4° E, 39.3° N7 km short4 mi short
Easternmost75.12° E, 37.39° N75.1° E, 37.4° N75.05° E, 37.44° N75.1° E, 37.4° N6 km short4 mi short
Southernmost71.74° E, 36.69° N71.7° E, 36.7° N71.78° E, 36.88° N71.8° E, 36.9° N21 km short13 mi short
Northernmost70.39° E, 41.03° N70.4° E, 41.0° N70.56° E, 41.01° N70.6° E, 41.0° N2 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 49% of the crowd’s lines run inside Tajikistan.

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.

Tajikistan and Afghanistan: 1,035 km in the game, 1,357 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Afghanistan1,035 km in the game1,357 km officially1,015 km the crowd’s1.9% shorter
Uzbekistan1,002 km in the game1,312 km officially1,054 km the crowd’s5.2% longer
Kyrgyzstan732 km in the game984 km officially781 km the crowd’s6.7% longer
China366 km in the game477 km officially394 km the crowd’s7.7% longer

How it is measured

The crowd’s Tajikistan: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Tajikistan 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 235 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.

One small piece of Tajikistan, 118 km², keeps its real shape, shown flat: islands no round asks players to draw, or too small to measure. They count in no figure.

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