How the crowd draws

6 drawings of its land border and 38 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 27 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw City of Aberdeen

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	205 km²79 sq mi	183 km²71 sq mi10.8% smaller
Outline	92 km57 mi	101 km63 mi10.0% longer
Centre	2.17° W, 57.16° N2.2° W, 57.2° N	2.18° W, 57.16° N2.2° W, 57.2° N0 km west0 mi west
Westernmost	2.36° W, 57.11° N2.4° W, 57.1° N	2.37° W, 57.13° N2.4° W, 57.1° N1 km beyond0 mi beyond
Easternmost	2.02° W, 57.14° N2.0° W, 57.1° N	2.02° W, 57.14° N2.0° W, 57.1° Nthe same
Southernmost	2.31° W, 57.08° N2.3° W, 57.1° N	2.09° W, 57.09° N2.1° W, 57.1° N1 km short1 mi short
Northernmost	2.24° W, 57.23° N2.2° W, 57.2° N	2.21° W, 57.24° N2.2° W, 57.2° Nthe same

Near the land border, 53% of the crowd’s lines run inside City of Aberdeen. Near the coast, 62% run inland.

Borders and coast

2 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Aberdeenshire	53 km in the game	61 km the crowd’s15.1% longer
Kincardineshire	20 km in the game	16 km the crowd’s20.0% shorter
The coast	23 km in the game	27 km the crowd’s17.4% longer

Watch the drawings

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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 (1.3 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s City of Aberdeen: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside City of Aberdeen 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 44 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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