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How the crowd draws

16 drawings of its land border and 44 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s Mexico map, 30 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Nayarit

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area28,000 km²11,000 sq mi28,000 km²11,000 sq mi1.5% smaller
Outline1,227 km762 mi1,260 km783 mi2.7% longer
Centre104.84° W, 21.80° N104.8° W, 21.8° N104.87° W, 21.80° N104.9° W, 21.8° N3 km west2 mi west
Westernmost105.76° W, 22.54° N105.8° W, 22.5° N105.78° W, 22.56° N105.8° W, 22.6° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Easternmost103.72° W, 21.43° N103.7° W, 21.4° N103.71° W, 21.42° N103.7° W, 21.4° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Southernmost104.26° W, 20.60° N104.3° W, 20.6° N105.29° W, 20.72° N105.3° W, 20.7° N13 km short8 mi short
Northernmost105.39° W, 23.08° N105.4° W, 23.1° N104.96° W, 23.03° N105.0° W, 23.0° N6 km short4 mi short

Near the land border, 53% of the crowd’s lines run inside Nayarit. Near the coast, 41% 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 INEGI (coasts, islands left out), 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.

Nayarit’s coast: 288 km in the game, 296 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Jalisco588 km in the game636 km the crowd’s8.2% longer
Durango253 km in the game306 km the crowd’s20.9% longer
Sinaloa149 km in the game129 km the crowd’s13.4% shorter
Zacatecas12 km in the game12 km the crowd’sthe same
The coast288 km in the game296 km officially243 km the crowd’s15.6% shorter

Watch the drawings

See every line on The Drawn Mexico →
The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the stateDownload (0.3 MB)
Not enough drawings yet
Another country and MexicoFrom where are you from; no answer left out1 of 10 drawings from another country needed
The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (0.4 MB)
Quickest and slowest to startBy time before the first lineDownload (0.4 MB)
Where drawings start and endStarts teal, ends pink, piled up blackDownload (0.1 MB)
The drawings stacked as blocksWhere many drawings pass, the stack growsDownload (1.4 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Nayarit: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Nayarit 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 60 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s Mexico 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.

Measuring how far the crowd moves the centre was Matt Forrest’s idea (forrest.nyc).

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