How the crowd draws

10 drawings of its land border and 46 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 25 September 2026 to 28 October 2026.

Draw Hampshire

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	3,844 km²1,484 sq mi	3,621 km²1,398 sq mi5.8% smaller
Outline	393 km244 mi	369 km229 mi6.2% shorter
Centre	1.29° W, 51.06° N1.3° W, 51.1° N	1.29° W, 51.05° N1.3° W, 51.1° N1 km south0 mi south
Westernmost	1.96° W, 50.99° N2.0° W, 51.0° N	1.88° W, 51.01° N1.9° W, 51.0° N5 km short3 mi short
Easternmost	0.73° W, 51.26° N0.7° W, 51.3° N	0.75° W, 51.23° N0.7° W, 51.2° N1 km short1 mi short
Southernmost	1.55° W, 50.71° N1.6° W, 50.7° N	1.71° W, 50.73° N1.7° W, 50.7° N3 km short2 mi short
Northernmost	1.09° W, 51.38° N1.1° W, 51.4° N	1.26° W, 51.36° N1.3° W, 51.4° N3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 57% of the crowd’s lines run inside Hampshire. Near the coast, 67% run inland.

Borders and coast

5 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Wiltshire	103 km in the game	100 km the crowd’s2.9% shorter
Berkshire	63 km in the game	63 km the crowd’sthe same
Dorset	58 km in the game	63 km the crowd’s8.6% longer
West Sussex	47 km in the game	42 km the crowd’s10.6% shorter
Surrey	46 km in the game	41 km the crowd’s10.9% shorter
The coast	81 km in the game	61 km the crowd’s24.7% shorter

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 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 (1.6 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Hampshire: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Hampshire 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 56 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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