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Where 1,787 players think Fiji is

Where 1,787 players think Fiji isEach dot is one player's first tap: 969 found Fiji and 818 missed. Fiji is a scatter of small islands, and of the countries players tapped instead, New Caledonia took the most. The countries tapped most instead were New Caledonia, Indonesia and Vanuatu.FijiNew Caledonia 146Vanuatu 46Indonesia 60found it 969missed 818borderline.world350 taps fall outside this view

Fiji is a scatter of small islands, and of the countries players tapped instead, New Caledonia took the most.

54%found it with their first tap
24%of misses landed in open water
2,156kmtypical miss (the median)

Each dot is one player's first tap on a blank globe when the daily asked for Fiji, 29 Aug to 23 Oct 2026, not counting 18-22 Oct.

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Find Ethiopia on a blank globe with no names on it. One tap, as in the game.

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1,294 players have tried. Can you find it with your first tap?

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Free to use with a credit to borderline.world (CC BY 4.0).

Map: Borderline (borderline.world) by Chris Silver, from 1,787 players' first taps, 29 Aug to 23 Oct 2026. CC BY 4.0.

To read out: "Asked to find Fiji on a blank globe, about eighteen hundred players tried, and more than half got it with their first tap. You can play at borderline dot world."

For a class: ask everyone to point to Fiji on a blank globe, then put this map on the board. Further down, the globe gives the class one tap to find Ethiopia, and its "Have another go" button resets it.

Want a country that isn't here? Email hello@borderline.world

How this was made

Every day Borderline gives everyone the same five countries to find on a blank 3D globe. This map takes each player's first tap when the daily puzzle asked for Fiji, from 29 Aug to 23 Oct 2026. It leaves out 18-22 Oct, when a short burst of one-off visitors would have skewed it. Islands count from 22 Aug 2026, when the game began giving credit for a tap just off the coast. The first counted tap for Fiji is from 29 Aug 2026. Each player counts once, with their earliest try. The game hands back the first tap in open water for free, so the map counts the tap after it; a second tap in the sea counts as a miss. A first tap in the player's own country does not count either, matched from their internet address, when that country was not Fiji: 2 taps were left out that way. A tap counts as found when it lands inside the border, or close enough to the coast to get credit in the game. Every counted tap is drawn where the game logged it, to about 1 km, on the same detailed map of borders the game judges taps against. A dot is bigger than the spot it marks, so where a miss landed close to the border, the part of its dot that would cross into Fiji is left off.

"Typical miss" is the median: half the misses were closer than that, half further. These are people who chose to play a geography game, not a survey of the population.

Your tap in Now you try is not added to any map. It is counted with the visit, as the about page explains.

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