How the crowd draws

18 drawings of its land border and 37 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 27 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Lancashire

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	3,252 km²1,256 sq mi	3,192 km²1,232 sq mi1.8% smaller
Outline	371 km230 mi	403 km251 mi8.8% longer
Centre	2.63° W, 53.84° N2.6° W, 53.8° N	2.60° W, 53.84° N2.6° W, 53.8° N2 km east1 mi east
Westernmost	3.08° W, 53.70° N3.1° W, 53.7° N	3.08° W, 53.70° N3.1° W, 53.7° Nthe same
Easternmost	2.05° W, 53.84° N2.0° W, 53.8° N	2.07° W, 53.85° N2.1° W, 53.8° N1 km short1 mi short
Southernmost	2.83° W, 53.48° N2.8° W, 53.5° N	2.83° W, 53.49° N2.8° W, 53.5° N1 km short0 mi short
Northernmost	2.46° W, 54.24° N2.5° W, 54.2° N	2.79° W, 54.21° N2.8° W, 54.2° N3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 47% of the crowd’s lines run inside Lancashire. Near the coast, 73% run inland.

Borders and coast

5 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Greater Manchester	82 km in the game	105 km the crowd’s28.0% longer
North Yorkshire	82 km in the game	84 km the crowd’s2.4% longer
Merseyside	69 km in the game	70 km the crowd’s1.4% longer
Cumbria	52 km in the game	64 km the crowd’s23.1% longer
West Yorkshire	24 km in the game	24 km the crowd’sthe same
The coast	67 km in the game	59 km the crowd’s11.9% 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 out7 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 (0.4 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 (1.8 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Lancashire: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Lancashire 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 55 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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