How the crowd draws

30 drawings of its land border and 39 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 25 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Norfolk

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	5,486 km²2,118 sq mi	5,310 km²2,050 sq mi3.2% smaller
Outline	401 km249 mi	352 km219 mi12.2% shorter
Centre	0.95° E, 52.68° N0.9° E, 52.7° N	0.99° E, 52.68° N1.0° E, 52.7° N3 km east2 mi east
Westernmost	0.15° E, 52.69° N0.2° E, 52.7° N	0.23° E, 52.85° N0.2° E, 52.8° N5 km short3 mi short
Easternmost	1.75° E, 52.58° N1.7° E, 52.6° N	1.75° E, 52.58° N1.8° E, 52.6° Nthe same
Southernmost	1.21° E, 52.36° N1.2° E, 52.4° N	1.13° E, 52.37° N1.1° E, 52.4° N1 km short1 mi short
Northernmost	0.85° E, 52.99° N0.8° E, 53.0° N	0.96° E, 52.99° N1.0° E, 53.0° Nthe same

Near the land border, 63% of the crowd’s lines run inside Norfolk. Near the coast, 46% run inland.

Borders and coast

3 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Suffolk	138 km in the game	136 km the crowd’s1.4% shorter
Cambridgeshire	61 km in the game	35 km the crowd’s42.6% shorter
Lincolnshire	23 km in the game	26 km the crowd’s13.0% longer
The coast	184 km in the game	152 km the crowd’s17.4% 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 out3 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 (1.5 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Norfolk: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Norfolk 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 69 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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