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How the crowd draws

865 drawings of its land border and 701 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 17 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area779,000 km²301,000 sq mi749,000 km²289,000 sq mi3.9% smaller
Outline7,349 km4,566 mi6,315 km3,924 mi14.1% shorter
Centre35.18° E, 39.14° N35.2° E, 39.1° N35.21° E, 39.20° N35.2° E, 39.2° N8 km north-east5 mi north-east
Westernmost26.05° E, 40.71° N26.1° E, 40.7° N26.08° E, 40.77° N26.1° E, 40.8° N2 km short1 mi short
Easternmost44.80° E, 37.28° N44.8° E, 37.3° N44.43° E, 37.68° N44.4° E, 37.7° N32 km short20 mi short
Southernmost36.14° E, 35.82° N36.1° E, 35.8° N35.86° E, 35.93° N35.9° E, 35.9° N12 km short8 mi short
Northernmost34.98° E, 42.09° N35.0° E, 42.1° N27.25° E, 42.05° N27.2° E, 42.0° N5 km short3 mi short

Near the land border, 63% of the crowd’s lines run inside Turkey. Near the coast, 52% 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.

Turkey and Syria: 717 km in the game, 899 km officially.

Turkey’s coast: 5,690 km in the game, 7,200 km officially.

7 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Syria717 km in the game899 km officially673 km the crowd’s6.1% shorter
Iran410 km in the game534 km officially367 km the crowd’s10.5% shorter
Iraq269 km in the game367 km officially306 km the crowd’s13.8% longer
Armenia237 km in the game311 km officially191 km the crowd’s19.4% shorter
Georgia205 km in the game273 km officially229 km the crowd’s11.7% longer
Bulgaria172 km in the game223 km officially167 km the crowd’s2.9% shorter
Greece145 km in the game192 km officially139 km the crowd’s4.1% shorter
The coast5,690 km in the game7,200 km officially4,596 km the crowd’s19.2% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Turkey: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Turkey 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 1,566 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 1,566.

4 small pieces of Turkey, 460 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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