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How the crowd draws

2,346 drawings of its land border and 3,122 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s US map, 24 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Georgia

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area153,000 km²59,000 sq mi144,000 km²55,000 sq mi5.9% smaller
Outline1,841 km1,144 mi1,756 km1,091 mi4.6% shorter
Centre83.44° W, 32.64° N83.4° W, 32.6° N83.35° W, 32.60° N83.4° W, 32.6° N9 km south-east6 mi south-east
Westernmost85.60° W, 34.97° N85.6° W, 35.0° N85.30° W, 34.79° N85.3° W, 34.8° N27 km short17 mi short
Easternmost80.84° W, 32.02° N80.8° W, 32.0° N80.87° W, 32.01° N80.9° W, 32.0° N3 km short2 mi short
Southernmost82.16° W, 30.36° N82.2° W, 30.4° N82.11° W, 30.45° N82.1° W, 30.5° N10 km short6 mi short
Northernmost83.13° W, 35.00° N83.1° W, 35.0° N83.13° W, 34.97° N83.1° W, 35.0° N3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 59% of the crowd’s lines run inside Georgia. Near the coast, 34% 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 NOAA (coasts, 1975), the International Boundary Commission (Canada) and the USGS (Mexico), 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. Great Lakes shores are not in NOAA's figures.

The boundary commission’s lengths with Canada include the line through the Great Lakes and the straits, which the game does not draw; where that is most of a state’s border (Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania), no official length is shown.

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.

Georgia’s coast: 233 km in the game, 161 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Alabama479 km in the game438 km the crowd’s8.6% shorter
South Carolina474 km in the game477 km the crowd’s0.6% longer
Florida441 km in the game443 km the crowd’s0.5% longer
Tennessee116 km in the game90 km the crowd’s22.4% shorter
North Carolina113 km in the game122 km the crowd’s8.0% longer
The coast233 km in the game161 km officially187 km the crowd’s19.7% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Georgia: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Georgia 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 5,468 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s US 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 5,468.

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