How the crowd draws

10 drawings of its land border and 50 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 28 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Durham

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	2,684 km²1,036 sq mi	2,601 km²1,004 sq mi3.1% smaller
Outline	314 km195 mi	295 km183 mi6.2% shorter
Centre	1.77° W, 54.68° N1.8° W, 54.7° N	1.76° W, 54.67° N1.8° W, 54.7° N1 km east0 mi east
Westernmost	2.36° W, 54.70° N2.4° W, 54.7° N	2.33° W, 54.69° N2.3° W, 54.7° N2 km short1 mi short
Easternmost	1.15° W, 54.65° N1.1° W, 54.6° N	1.15° W, 54.65° N1.1° W, 54.7° Nthe same
Southernmost	1.46° W, 54.45° N1.5° W, 54.5° N	1.91° W, 54.47° N1.9° W, 54.5° N2 km short1 mi short
Northernmost	1.74° W, 54.92° N1.7° W, 54.9° N	1.82° W, 54.89° N1.8° W, 54.9° N3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 55% of the crowd’s lines run inside Durham. Near the coast, 45% run inland.

Borders and coast

4 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
North Yorkshire	129 km in the game	106 km the crowd’s17.8% shorter
Tyne and Wear	56 km in the game	45 km the crowd’s19.6% shorter
Northumberland	49 km in the game	47 km the crowd’s4.1% shorter
Cumbria	49 km in the game	66 km the crowd’s34.7% longer
The coast	32 km in the game	29 km the crowd’s9.4% shorter

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 (0.2 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 (1.2 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Durham: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Durham 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 60 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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