How the crowd draws

10 drawings of its land border and 44 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 29 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw North Yorkshire

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	8,655 km²3,342 sq mi	7,464 km²2,882 sq mi13.8% smaller
Outline	624 km388 mi	597 km371 mi4.4% shorter
Centre	1.39° W, 54.20° N1.4° W, 54.2° N	1.36° W, 54.22° N1.4° W, 54.2° N3 km north-east2 mi north-east
Westernmost	2.56° W, 54.14° N2.6° W, 54.1° N	2.43° W, 54.18° N2.4° W, 54.2° N9 km short5 mi short
Easternmost	0.21° W, 54.16° N0.2° W, 54.2° N	0.21° W, 54.16° N0.2° W, 54.2° N1 km beyond0 mi beyond
Southernmost	1.23° W, 53.62° N1.2° W, 53.6° N	1.01° W, 53.72° N1.0° W, 53.7° N11 km short7 mi short
Northernmost	1.14° W, 54.65° N1.1° W, 54.6° N	1.14° W, 54.65° N1.1° W, 54.6° Nthe same

Near the land border, 58% of the crowd’s lines run inside North Yorkshire. Near the coast, 73% run inland.

Borders and coast

6 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
East Riding of Yorkshire	138 km in the game	138 km the crowd’sthe same
West Yorkshire	136 km in the game	132 km the crowd’s2.9% shorter
Durham	125 km in the game	115 km the crowd’s8.0% shorter
Lancashire	76 km in the game	46 km the crowd’s39.5% shorter
Cumbria	50 km in the game	79 km the crowd’s58.0% longer
South Yorkshire	16 km in the game	0 km the crowd’s100.0% shorter
The coast	104 km in the game	103 km the crowd’s1.0% shorter

Watch the drawings

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Not enough drawings yet

The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the county19 of 20 drawings needed on each side

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 North Yorkshire: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside North Yorkshire 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 54 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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