How the crowd draws
78 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s Germany map, 25 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.
In numbers
| The real one | The crowd’s | |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 16,000 km²6,231 sq mi | 15,000 km²5,645 sq mi↓9.4% smaller |
| Outline | 1,059 km658 mi | 895 km556 mi↓15.5% shorter |
| Centre | 11.03° E, 50.90° N11.0° E, 50.9° N | 11.05° E, 50.93° N11.1° E, 50.9° N↗3 km north-east2 mi north-east |
| Westernmost | 9.88° E, 50.64° N9.9° E, 50.6° N | 9.96° E, 50.82° N10.0° E, 50.8° N→6 km short4 mi short |
| Easternmost | 12.65° E, 50.92° N12.7° E, 50.9° N | 12.49° E, 50.93° N12.5° E, 50.9° N←11 km short7 mi short |
| Southernmost | 10.72° E, 50.21° N10.7° E, 50.2° N | 11.25° E, 50.35° N11.2° E, 50.3° N↑16 km short10 mi short |
| Northernmost | 10.77° E, 51.65° N10.8° E, 51.6° N | 10.70° E, 51.61° N10.7° E, 51.6° N↓4 km short3 mi short |
Near the land border, 58% of the crowd’s lines run inside Thüringen.
Borders
| Border with | In the game | The crowd’s |
|---|---|---|
| Bayern | 328 km in the game | 221 km the crowd’s↓32.6% shorter |
| Sachsen-Anhalt | 260 km in the game | 247 km the crowd’s↓5.0% shorter |
| Sachsen | 242 km in the game | 226 km the crowd’s↓6.6% shorter |
| Hessen | 233 km in the game | 192 km the crowd’s↓17.6% shorter |
| Niedersachsen | 98 km in the game | 97 km the crowd’s↓1.0% shorter |
Watch the drawings
See every line on The Drawn Germany →How it is measured
The crowd’s Thüringen: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Thüringen 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 78 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s Germany 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).
Draw Thüringen yourself and add your line to the next update.