How the crowd draws

6 drawings of its land border and 26 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 26 September 2026 to 25 October 2026.

Draw Gwynedd

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	3,355 km²1,295 sq mi	3,250 km²1,255 sq mi3.1% smaller
Outline	549 km341 mi	604 km375 mi10.0% longer
Centre	4.10° W, 52.98° N4.1° W, 53.0° N	4.10° W, 52.97° N4.1° W, 53.0° N1 km south1 mi south
Westernmost	4.77° W, 52.80° N4.8° W, 52.8° N	4.75° W, 52.79° N4.7° W, 52.8° N1 km short1 mi short
Easternmost	3.44° W, 52.98° N3.4° W, 53.0° N	3.52° W, 52.86° N3.5° W, 52.9° N6 km short4 mi short
Southernmost	4.02° W, 52.54° N4.0° W, 52.5° N	4.01° W, 52.52° N4.0° W, 52.5° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond
Northernmost	4.43° W, 53.43° N4.4° W, 53.4° N	4.48° W, 53.45° N4.5° W, 53.5° N2 km beyond1 mi beyond

Near the land border, 44% of the crowd’s lines run inside Gwynedd. Near the coast, 60% run inland.

Borders and coast

3 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Clwyd	112 km in the game	133 km the crowd’s18.8% longer
Powys	64 km in the game	69 km the crowd’s7.8% longer
Dyfed	11 km in the game	14 km the crowd’s27.3% longer
The coast	386 km in the game	413 km the crowd’s7.0% longer

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 (0.3 MB)

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out5 of 10 drawings from another country needed

The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (0.4 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 (1.6 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Gwynedd: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Gwynedd 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 32 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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