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How the crowd draws

426 drawings of its land border and 623 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
Area57,000 km²22,000 sq mi58,000 km²22,000 sq mi1.4% bigger
Outline1,645 km1,022 mi1,674 km1,040 mi1.8% longer
Centre0.96° E, 8.52° N1.0° E, 8.5° N0.92° E, 8.40° N0.9° E, 8.4° N15 km south9 mi south
Westernmost0.16° W, 11.13° N0.2° W, 11.1° N0.06° W, 10.66° N0.1° W, 10.7° N11 km short7 mi short
Easternmost1.78° E, 6.28° N1.8° E, 6.3° N1.77° E, 6.29° N1.8° E, 6.3° N1 km short1 mi short
Southernmost1.19° E, 6.10° N1.2° E, 6.1° N1.18° E, 6.06° N1.2° E, 6.1° N4 km beyond3 mi beyond
Northernmost0.16° W, 11.13° N0.2° W, 11.1° N0.05° E, 11.04° N0.1° E, 11.0° N10 km short6 mi short

Near the land border, 49% of the crowd’s lines run inside Togo. Near the coast, 33% 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.

Togo and Ghana: 719 km in the game, 1,098 km officially.

Togo’s coast: 49 km in the game, 56 km officially.

3 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Ghana719 km in the game1,098 km officially737 km the crowd’s2.5% longer
Benin609 km in the game651 km officially619 km the crowd’s1.6% longer
Burkina Faso111 km in the game131 km officially118 km the crowd’s6.3% longer
The coast49 km in the game56 km officially49 km the crowd’sthe same

How it is measured

The crowd’s Togo: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Togo 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 1,049 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 1,049.

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