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How the crowd draws

318 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 23 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Uzbekistan

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area447,000 km²173,000 sq mi429,000 km²166,000 sq mi4.1% smaller
Outline5,526 km3,434 mi5,785 km3,595 mi4.7% longer
Centre63.30° E, 41.78° N63.3° E, 41.8° N63.23° E, 41.83° N63.2° E, 41.8° N9 km north-west5 mi north-west
Westernmost55.97° E, 44.54° N56.0° E, 44.5° N56.02° E, 43.00° N56.0° E, 43.0° N4 km short2 mi short
Easternmost73.13° E, 40.81° N73.1° E, 40.8° N73.13° E, 40.81° N73.1° E, 40.8° Nthe same
Southernmost67.77° E, 37.19° N67.8° E, 37.2° N66.62° E, 37.44° N66.6° E, 37.4° N28 km short18 mi short
Northernmost58.53° E, 45.55° N58.5° E, 45.6° N58.55° E, 45.47° N58.6° E, 45.5° N9 km short5 mi short

Near the land border, 52% of the crowd’s lines run inside Uzbekistan.

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.

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan: 2,110 km in the game, 2,330 km officially.

5 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Kazakhstan2,110 km in the game2,330 km officially2,158 km the crowd’s2.3% longer
Turkmenistan1,489 km in the game1,793 km officially1,584 km the crowd’s6.4% longer
Tajikistan971 km in the game1,312 km officially1,028 km the crowd’s5.9% longer
Kyrgyzstan886 km in the game1,314 km officially991 km the crowd’s11.9% longer
Afghanistan123 km in the game144 km officially89 km the crowd’s27.6% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Uzbekistan: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Uzbekistan 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 318 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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