How the crowd draws
90 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s France map, 25 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.
In numbers
| The real one | The crowd’s | |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 105 km²41 sq mi | 95 km²37 sq mi↓9.2% smaller |
| Outline | 54 km34 mi | 55 km34 mi↑1.0% longer |
| Centre | 2.34° E, 48.86° N2.3° E, 48.9° N | 2.34° E, 48.86° N2.3° E, 48.9° N=0 km east0 mi east |
| Westernmost | 2.22° E, 48.86° N2.2° E, 48.9° N | 2.23° E, 48.86° N2.2° E, 48.9° N→1 km short0 mi short |
| Easternmost | 2.47° E, 48.84° N2.5° E, 48.8° N | 2.46° E, 48.83° N2.5° E, 48.8° N←1 km short0 mi short |
| Southernmost | 2.36° E, 48.82° N2.4° E, 48.8° N | 2.36° E, 48.82° N2.4° E, 48.8° N=the same |
| Northernmost | 2.37° E, 48.90° N2.4° E, 48.9° N | 2.37° E, 48.90° N2.4° E, 48.9° N=the same |
Near the land border, 67% of the crowd’s lines run inside Paris.
Borders
| Border with | In the game | The crowd’s |
|---|---|---|
| Hauts-de-Seine | 21 km in the game | 23 km the crowd’s↑9.5% longer |
| Val-de-Marne | 21 km in the game | 21 km the crowd’s=the same |
| Seine-Saint-Denis | 12 km in the game | 11 km the crowd’s↓8.3% shorter |
Watch the drawings
See every line on The Drawn France →How it is measured
The crowd’s Paris: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Paris 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 90 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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