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How the crowd draws

430 drawings of its land border and 727 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Tunisia

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area156,000 km²60,000 sq mi142,000 km²55,000 sq mi8.8% smaller
Outline2,528 km1,571 mi2,328 km1,446 mi7.9% shorter
Centre9.55° E, 34.09° N9.6° E, 34.1° N9.52° E, 34.19° N9.5° E, 34.2° N11 km north7 mi north
Westernmost7.48° E, 33.90° N7.5° E, 33.9° N7.72° E, 34.08° N7.7° E, 34.1° N22 km short14 mi short
Easternmost11.56° E, 32.47° N11.6° E, 32.5° N11.52° E, 33.19° N11.5° E, 33.2° N4 km short2 mi short
Southernmost9.53° E, 30.23° N9.5° E, 30.2° N9.53° E, 30.43° N9.5° E, 30.4° N22 km short13 mi short
Northernmost9.73° E, 37.34° N9.7° E, 37.3° N10.14° E, 37.11° N10.1° E, 37.1° N26 km short16 mi short

Near the land border, 59% of the crowd’s lines run inside Tunisia. Near the coast, 51% 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.

Tunisia and Algeria: 868 km in the game, 1,034 km officially.

Tunisia’s coast: 1,184 km in the game, 1,148 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Algeria868 km in the game1,034 km officially825 km the crowd’s5.0% shorter
Libya436 km in the game461 km officially398 km the crowd’s8.7% shorter
The coast1,184 km in the game1,148 km officially1,033 km the crowd’s12.8% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Tunisia: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Tunisia 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 1,157 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 1,157.

3 small pieces of Tunisia, 656 km² in all, keep their 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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