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How the crowd draws

299 drawings of its land border and 510 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 16 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Uruguay

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area177,000 km²69,000 sq mi176,000 km²68,000 sq mi1.0% smaller
Outline1,951 km1,213 mi1,876 km1,166 mi3.9% shorter
Centre56.02° W, 32.79° S56.0° W, 32.8° S55.97° W, 32.75° S56.0° W, 32.8° S6 km north-east4 mi north-east
Westernmost58.44° W, 33.71° S58.4° W, 33.7° S58.29° W, 33.16° S58.3° W, 33.2° S14 km short9 mi short
Easternmost53.11° W, 32.72° S53.1° W, 32.7° S53.12° W, 32.72° S53.1° W, 32.7° S1 km short1 mi short
Southernmost54.95° W, 34.97° S55.0° W, 35.0° S56.15° W, 34.92° S56.2° W, 34.9° S6 km short4 mi short
Northernmost56.96° W, 30.10° S57.0° W, 30.1° S57.06° W, 30.13° S57.1° W, 30.1° S3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 49% of the crowd’s lines run inside Uruguay. Near the coast, 61% 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.

Uruguay and Brazil: 747 km in the game, 1,050 km officially.

Uruguay’s coast: 868 km in the game, 660 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Brazil747 km in the game1,050 km officially744 km the crowd’s0.4% shorter
Argentina283 km in the game541 km officially257 km the crowd’s9.2% shorter
The coast868 km in the game660 km officially822 km the crowd’s5.3% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Uruguay: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Uruguay 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 809 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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