How the crowd draws

3 drawings of its land border and 36 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 27 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

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RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	3,113 km²1,202 sq mi	3,102 km²1,198 sq mi0.4% smaller
Outline	382 km237 mi	468 km291 mi22.5% longer
Centre	3.49° W, 55.18° N3.5° W, 55.2° N	3.51° W, 55.18° N3.5° W, 55.2° N1 km west1 mi west
Westernmost	4.12° W, 55.31° N4.1° W, 55.3° N	4.13° W, 55.32° N4.1° W, 55.3° Nthe same
Easternmost	2.86° W, 55.11° N2.9° W, 55.1° N	2.92° W, 55.26° N2.9° W, 55.3° N4 km short2 mi short
Southernmost	3.64° W, 54.84° N3.6° W, 54.8° N	3.75° W, 54.82° N3.8° W, 54.8° N2 km beyond2 mi beyond
Northernmost	3.99° W, 55.46° N4.0° W, 55.5° N	3.87° W, 55.45° N3.9° W, 55.5° N2 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 55% of the crowd’s lines run inside Dumfries. Near the coast, 52% run inland.

Borders and coast

6 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Kirkcudbright	95 km in the game	162 km the crowd’s70.5% longer
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale	89 km in the game	94 km the crowd’s5.6% longer
Lanarkshire	59 km in the game	90 km the crowd’s52.5% longer
Cumbria	49 km in the game	59 km the crowd’s20.4% longer
Ayrshire and Arran	24 km in the game	21 km the crowd’s12.5% shorter
Tweeddale	17 km in the game	17 km the crowd’sthe same
The coast	62 km in the game	30 km the crowd’s51.6% shorter

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Not enough drawings yet

The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the county16 of 20 drawings needed on each side

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out8 of 10 drawings from another country needed

The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (0.2 MB)

Quickest and slowest to startBy time before the first lineDownload (0.2 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 (1.5 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Dumfries: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Dumfries 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 39 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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