How the crowd draws

11 drawings of its land border and 41 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 28 September 2026 to 28 October 2026.

Draw Berwickshire

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	915 km²353 sq mi	961 km²371 sq mi5.0% bigger
Outline	170 km105 mi	180 km112 mi6.3% longer
Centre	2.36° W, 55.79° N2.4° W, 55.8° N	2.37° W, 55.78° N2.4° W, 55.8° N1 km south-west1 mi south-west
Westernmost	2.70° W, 55.83° N2.7° W, 55.8° N	2.68° W, 55.83° N2.7° W, 55.8° N1 km short1 mi short
Easternmost	2.03° W, 55.81° N2.0° W, 55.8° N	1.98° W, 55.80° N2.0° W, 55.8° N3 km beyond2 mi beyond
Southernmost	2.33° W, 55.63° N2.3° W, 55.6° N	2.36° W, 55.63° N2.4° W, 55.6° Nthe same
Northernmost	2.37° W, 55.95° N2.4° W, 55.9° N	2.37° W, 55.96° N2.4° W, 56.0° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond

Near the land border, 40% of the crowd’s lines run inside Berwickshire. Near the coast, 75% run inland.

Borders and coast

3 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale	54 km in the game	58 km the crowd’s7.4% longer
East Lothian	43 km in the game	50 km the crowd’s16.3% longer
Northumberland	37 km in the game	37 km the crowd’sthe same
The coast	40 km in the game	37 km the crowd’s7.5% shorter

Watch the drawings

See every line on The Drawn UK →

The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the countyDownload (0.2 MB)

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out4 of 10 drawings from another country needed

The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (0.3 MB)

Quickest and slowest to startBy time before the first lineDownload (0.3 MB)

Where drawings start and endStarts teal, ends pink, piled up blackDownload (0.1 MB)

The drawings stacked as blocksWhere many drawings pass, the stack growsDownload (1.8 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Berwickshire: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Berwickshire 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 52 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s United Kingdom 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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