How the crowd draws the
814 drawings of its land border and 680 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s World map, 23 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.
In numbers
Last updated on 28 October 2026
| The real one | The crowd’s | |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 232,000 km²89,000 sq mi | 215,000 km²83,000 sq mi↓7.1% smaller |
| Outline | 7,250 km4,505 mi | 6,539 km4,063 mi↓9.8% shorter |
| Centre | 2.68° W, 53.89° N2.7° W, 53.9° N | 2.63° W, 54.02° N2.6° W, 54.0° N↑16 km north10 mi north |
| Westernmost | 8.17° W, 54.46° N8.2° W, 54.5° N | 7.77° W, 54.51° N7.8° W, 54.5° N→26 km short16 mi short |
| Easternmost | 1.76° E, 52.51° N1.8° E, 52.5° N | 1.51° E, 52.68° N1.5° E, 52.7° N←17 km short10 mi short |
| Southernmost | 5.19° W, 49.97° N5.2° W, 50.0° N | 5.63° W, 50.10° N5.6° W, 50.1° N↑14 km short9 mi short |
| Northernmost | 3.39° W, 58.67° N3.4° W, 58.7° N | 3.34° W, 58.64° N3.3° W, 58.6° N↓3 km short2 mi short |
Near the land border, 59% of the crowd’s lines run inside the United Kingdom. Near the coast, 58% run inland.
Borders and coast
| Border with | In the game | The crowd’s |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 310 km in the game499 km officially | 263 km the crowd’s↓15.2% shorter |
| The coast | 7,776 km in the game12,429 km officially | 7,025 km the crowd’s↓9.7% shorter |
Counties of the United Kingdom
95 counties, 44 with a page- Draw
Aberdeenshire1.7% smaller · 32 drawings - DrawAngus24 of 25 drawings needed
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Banffshire1.0% smaller · 29 drawings - DrawBedfordshire18 of 25 drawings needed
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Berwickshire5.0% bigger · 52 drawings - Draw
Bristol7.5% bigger · 33 drawings - DrawBuckinghamshire11 of 25 drawings needed
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Cambridgeshire5.7% smaller · 26 drawings - DrawCheshire13 of 25 drawings needed
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City of Aberdeen10.8% smaller · 44 drawings - Draw
City of Dundee4.3% smaller · 51 drawings - Draw
City of Edinburgh8.3% smaller · 38 drawings - DrawCity of Glasgow16 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawClackmannan3 of 25 drawings needed
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Clwyd2.6% smaller · 35 drawings - Draw
Cornwall10.7% bigger · 52 drawings - DrawCounty Antrim19 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawCounty Armagh10 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawCounty Down13 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawCounty Fermanagh5 of 25 drawings needed
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County Londonderry6.7% smaller · 36 drawings - DrawCounty Tyrone10 of 25 drawings needed
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Cumbria11.1% smaller · 53 drawings - DrawDerbyshire12 of 25 drawings needed
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Devon10.5% smaller · 53 drawings - Draw
Dorset1.9% smaller · 42 drawings - Draw
Dumfries0.4% smaller · 39 drawings - Draw
Dunbartonshire30.8% smaller · 30 drawings - Draw
Durham3.1% smaller · 60 drawings - DrawDyfed12 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawEast Lothian13 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawEast Riding of Yorkshire14 of 25 drawings needed
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East Sussex8.7% smaller · 53 drawings - Draw
Essex7.1% smaller · 55 drawings - DrawFife9 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawGloucestershire16 of 25 drawings needed
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Greater London6.6% bigger · 47 drawings - Draw
Greater Manchester6.2% smaller · 25 drawings - Draw
Gwent9.4% smaller · 31 drawings - Draw
Gwynedd3.1% smaller · 32 drawings - Draw
Hampshire5.8% smaller · 56 drawings - DrawHerefordshire15 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawHertfordshire14 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawInverness23 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawIsle of Wight18 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawKent20 of 25 drawings needed
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Kincardineshire11.4% smaller · 37 drawings - Draw
Kirkcudbright4.7% smaller · 39 drawings - DrawLanarkshire2 of 25 drawings needed
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Lancashire1.8% smaller · 55 drawings - DrawLeicestershire16 of 25 drawings needed
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Lincolnshire7.2% smaller · 63 drawings - Draw
Merseyside0.1% smaller · 49 drawings - Draw
Mid Glamorgan1.5% smaller · 40 drawings - DrawMidlothian10 of 25 drawings needed
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Moray17.9% smaller · 48 drawings - Draw
Nairn4.9% smaller · 36 drawings - Draw
Norfolk3.2% smaller · 69 drawings - Draw
North Yorkshire13.8% smaller · 54 drawings - DrawNorthamptonshire8 of 25 drawings needed
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Northumberland6.8% smaller · 59 drawings - DrawNottinghamshire19 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawOrkney10 of 25 drawings needed
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Oxfordshire5.3% smaller · 26 drawings - Draw
Perth and Kinross14.5% smaller · 37 drawings - DrawPowys12 of 25 drawings needed
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Renfrewshire6.4% bigger · 29 drawings - DrawRoss and Cromarty20 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawRoxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale2 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawRutland4 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawShropshire13 of 25 drawings needed
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Somerset5.6% smaller · 70 drawings - DrawSouth Glamorgan18 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawSouth Yorkshire14 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawStaffordshire15 of 25 drawings needed
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Stirling and Falkirk7.3% smaller · 43 drawings - Draw
Suffolk6.4% smaller · 68 drawings - DrawSurrey14 of 25 drawings needed
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Sutherland14.2% smaller · 35 drawings - DrawTweeddale1 of 25 drawings needed
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Tyne and Wear3.1% smaller · 43 drawings - DrawWarwickshire12 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawWest Glamorgan7 of 25 drawings needed
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Not enough drawings yet - DrawWest Midlands13 of 25 drawings needed
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West Sussex9.4% smaller · 53 drawings - DrawWest Yorkshire8 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawWestern Isles25 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawWigtown12 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawWiltshire13 of 25 drawings needed
Not enough drawings yet - DrawWorcestershire16 of 25 drawings needed
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Watch the drawings
See every line on The Drawn World →Watch every county being drawn
See every line on The Drawn UK →How it is measured
The crowd’s United Kingdom: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside the United Kingdom 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 1,494 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 1,494.
55 small pieces of the United Kingdom, 11,000 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.
Measuring how far the crowd moves the centre was Matt Forrest’s idea (forrest.nyc).
Draw the United Kingdom yourself and add your line to the next update.