How the crowd draws
145 drawings of its land border and 206 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s Canada map, 7 October 2026 to 27 October 2026.
In numbers
| The real one | The crowd’s | |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 873,000 km²337,000 sq mi | 851,000 km²328,000 sq mi↓2.6% smaller |
| Outline | 13,072 km8,122 mi | 8,235 km5,117 mi↓37.0% shorter |
| Centre | 98.58° W, 65.91° N98.6° W, 65.9° N | 99.13° W, 65.42° N99.1° W, 65.4° N↙61 km south-west38 mi south-west |
| Westernmost | 120.72° W, 69.57° N120.7° W, 69.6° N | 120.82° W, 69.66° N120.8° W, 69.7° N←4 km beyond2 mi beyond |
| Easternmost | 81.20° W, 67.47° N81.2° W, 67.5° N | 81.55° W, 68.68° N81.6° W, 68.7° N←15 km short9 mi short |
| Southernmost | 94.83° W, 60.00° N94.8° W, 60.0° N | 97.20° W, 59.52° N97.2° W, 59.5° N↓54 km beyond33 mi beyond |
| Northernmost | 94.64° W, 72.00° N94.6° W, 72.0° N | 86.37° W, 69.90° N86.4° W, 69.9° N↓232 km short144 mi short |
Near the land border, 40% of the crowd’s lines run inside Nunavut. Near the coast, 60% run inland.
Borders and coast
| Border with | In the game | The crowd’s |
|---|---|---|
| Northwest Territories | 1,630 km in the game | 1,481 km the crowd’s↓9.1% shorter |
| Manitoba | 405 km in the game | 473 km the crowd’s↑16.8% longer |
| The coast | 14,362 km in the game | 7,966 km the crowd’s↓44.5% shorter |
Watch the drawings
See every line on The Drawn Canada →How it is measured
The crowd’s Nunavut: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Nunavut 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 351 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s Canada 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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