How the crowd draws
5 drawings of its land border and 25 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 27 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.
In numbers
| The real one | The crowd’s | |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 854 km²330 sq mi | 591 km²228 sq mi↓30.8% smaller |
| Outline | 308 km191 mi | 238 km148 mi↓22.7% shorter |
| Centre | 4.49° W, 56.04° N4.5° W, 56.0° N | 4.51° W, 56.04° N4.5° W, 56.0° N←1 km west1 mi west |
| Westernmost | 4.88° W, 56.05° N4.9° W, 56.1° N | 4.79° W, 56.09° N4.8° W, 56.1° N→6 km short4 mi short |
| Easternmost | 3.86° W, 55.96° N3.9° W, 56.0° N | 3.99° W, 55.94° N4.0° W, 55.9° N←8 km short5 mi short |
| Southernmost | 4.39° W, 55.89° N4.4° W, 55.9° N | 4.29° W, 55.91° N4.3° W, 55.9° N↑2 km short1 mi short |
| Northernmost | 4.74° W, 56.33° N4.7° W, 56.3° N | 4.74° W, 56.31° N4.7° W, 56.3° N↓2 km short1 mi short |
Near the land border, 64% of the crowd’s lines run inside Dunbartonshire. Near the coast, 72% run inland.
Borders and coast
| Border with | In the game | The crowd’s |
|---|---|---|
| Stirling and Falkirk | 140 km in the game | 120 km the crowd’s↓14.3% shorter |
| City of Glasgow | 27 km in the game | 20 km the crowd’s↓25.9% shorter |
| Lanarkshire | 25 km in the game | 18 km the crowd’s↓28.0% shorter |
| Argyll and Bute | 23 km in the game | 14 km the crowd’s↓39.1% shorter |
| Renfrewshire | 19 km in the game | 24 km the crowd’s↑26.3% longer |
| The coast | 76 km in the game | 38 km the crowd’s↓50.0% shorter |
Watch the drawings
See every line on The Drawn UK →How it is measured
The crowd’s Dunbartonshire: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Dunbartonshire 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 30 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).
Draw Dunbartonshire yourself and add your line to the next update.