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How the crowd draws

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

Draw Uganda

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area243,000 km²94,000 sq mi230,000 km²89,000 sq mi5.0% smaller
Outline2,276 km1,414 mi2,260 km1,404 mi0.7% shorter
Centre32.37° E, 1.27° N32.4° E, 1.3° N32.44° E, 1.26° N32.4° E, 1.3° N8 km east5 mi east
Westernmost29.56° E, 1.00° S29.6° E, 1.0° S29.55° E, 0.69° S29.5° E, 0.7° S2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Easternmost34.98° E, 1.77° N35.0° E, 1.8° N34.97° E, 1.78° N35.0° E, 1.8° N1 km short1 mi short
Southernmost29.93° E, 1.47° S29.9° E, 1.5° S29.68° E, 1.30° S29.7° E, 1.3° S19 km short12 mi short
Northernmost33.98° E, 4.22° N34.0° E, 4.2° N33.91° E, 3.98° N33.9° E, 4.0° N26 km short16 mi short

Near the land border, 56% of the crowd’s lines run inside Uganda.

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.

Uganda and Dem. Rep. Congo: 675 km in the game, 877 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Dem. Rep. Congo675 km in the game877 km officially735 km the crowd’s8.9% longer
Kenya675 km in the game814 km officially660 km the crowd’s2.2% shorter
S. Sudan418 km in the game475 km officially362 km the crowd’s13.4% shorter
Tanzania380 km in the game391 km officially386 km the crowd’s1.6% longer
Rwanda131 km in the game172 km officially117 km the crowd’s10.7% shorter

How it is measured

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

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