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How the crowd draws

490 drawings of its land border and 858 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
Area913,000 km²353,000 sq mi928,000 km²358,000 sq mi1.7% bigger
Outline8,187 km5,087 mi6,165 km3,830 mi24.7% shorter
Centre66.17° W, 7.11° N66.2° W, 7.1° N66.48° W, 7.29° N66.5° W, 7.3° N39 km north-west24 mi north-west
Westernmost73.39° W, 9.20° N73.4° W, 9.2° N72.96° W, 9.30° N73.0° W, 9.3° N47 km short29 mi short
Easternmost59.82° W, 8.27° N59.8° W, 8.3° N60.09° W, 8.29° N60.1° W, 8.3° N30 km short19 mi short
Southernmost65.51° W, 0.65° N65.5° W, 0.7° N66.23° W, 0.99° N66.2° W, 1.0° N37 km short23 mi short
Northernmost70.02° W, 12.20° N70.0° W, 12.2° N70.19° W, 11.76° N70.2° W, 11.8° N49 km short30 mi short

Near the land border, 51% of the crowd’s lines run inside Venezuela. Near the coast, 46% 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.

Venezuela and Colombia: 1,970 km in the game, 2,341 km officially.

Venezuela’s coast: 4,286 km in the game, 2,800 km officially.

3 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Colombia1,970 km in the game2,341 km officially1,882 km the crowd’s4.5% shorter
Brazil1,463 km in the game2,137 km officially1,412 km the crowd’s3.5% shorter
Guyana570 km in the game789 km officially554 km the crowd’s2.8% shorter
The coast4,286 km in the game2,800 km officially2,251 km the crowd’s47.5% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Venezuela: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Venezuela 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 1,348 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 1,348.

27 small pieces of Venezuela, 3,555 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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