How the crowd draws
33 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s France map, 25 September 2026 to 25 October 2026.
In numbers
| The real one | The crowd’s | |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 6,141 km²2,371 sq mi | 6,392 km²2,468 sq mi↑4.1% bigger |
| Outline | 483 km300 mi | 474 km295 mi↓1.8% shorter |
| Centre | 0.69° E, 47.26° N0.7° E, 47.3° N | 0.69° E, 47.29° N0.7° E, 47.3° N↑4 km north2 mi north |
| Westernmost | 0.05° E, 47.20° N0.1° E, 47.2° N | 0.08° E, 47.16° N0.1° E, 47.2° N→2 km short1 mi short |
| Easternmost | 1.36° E, 47.12° N1.4° E, 47.1° N | 1.34° E, 47.11° N1.3° E, 47.1° N←2 km short1 mi short |
| Southernmost | 0.96° E, 46.74° N1.0° E, 46.7° N | 0.86° E, 46.78° N0.9° E, 46.8° N↑5 km short3 mi short |
| Northernmost | 0.64° E, 47.71° N0.6° E, 47.7° N | 0.64° E, 47.73° N0.6° E, 47.7° N↑2 km beyond1 mi beyond |
Near the land border, 44% of the crowd’s lines run inside Indre-et-Loire.
Borders
| Border with | In the game | The crowd’s |
|---|---|---|
| Loir-et-Cher | 143 km in the game | 152 km the crowd’s↑6.3% longer |
| Vienne | 141 km in the game | 139 km the crowd’s↓1.4% shorter |
| Indre | 93 km in the game | 87 km the crowd’s↓6.5% shorter |
| Maine-et-Loire | 67 km in the game | 67 km the crowd’s=the same |
| Sarthe | 51 km in the game | 42 km the crowd’s↓17.6% shorter |
Watch the drawings
See every line on The Drawn France →How it is measured
The crowd’s Indre-et-Loire: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Indre-et-Loire 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 33 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s France 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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