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How the crowd draws

47 drawings of its land border and 50 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s France map, 25 September 2026 to 25 October 2026.

Draw Corse

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area8,713 km²3,364 sq mi7,859 km²3,034 sq mi9.8% smaller
Outline723 km449 mi689 km428 mi4.7% shorter
Centre9.11° E, 42.15° N9.1° E, 42.1° N9.09° E, 42.17° N9.1° E, 42.2° N3 km north2 mi north
Westernmost8.54° E, 42.24° N8.5° E, 42.2° N8.55° E, 42.34° N8.5° E, 42.3° Nthe same
Easternmost9.56° E, 42.28° N9.6° E, 42.3° N9.51° E, 42.22° N9.5° E, 42.2° N4 km short3 mi short
Southernmost9.20° E, 41.37° N9.2° E, 41.4° N9.17° E, 41.47° N9.2° E, 41.5° N12 km short7 mi short
Northernmost9.42° E, 43.01° N9.4° E, 43.0° N9.34° E, 43.00° N9.3° E, 43.0° N1 km short0 mi short

Near the land border, 100% of the crowd’s lines run inside Corse. Near the coast, 56% run inland.

Coast

Why two lengths?

A line’s length depends on how closely it is drawn. The game’s lines are simplified: they keep a point every few kilometres and cut across small bends. The official lengths, from the Observatoire national de la mer et du littoral (coasts, 2015 to 2017), are measured on other lines. A border measured on a finer line, following every bend of its rivers and ridges, comes out longer.

Coasts differ most, and either way. Some official coastlines follow every inlet and island (Canada’s 202,080 km); others are smoothed on purpose, crossing bays and sounds (the United States’ 19,924 km), and can come out shorter than the game’s.

Players draw against the game’s line and are scored against it, so the crowd’s length is compared with the game’s, both measured the same way. Set against an official length measured another way, the comparison would say more about the two methods than about the crowd.

Corse’s coast: 770 km in the game, 1,042 km officially.

Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
The coast770 km in the game1,042 km officially734 km the crowd’s4.7% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Corse: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Corse 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 97 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s France 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.

Draw Corse yourself and add your line to the next update.