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How the crowd draws

41 drawings of its land border and 40 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s France map, 25 September 2026 to 25 October 2026.

Draw Finistère

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area6,727 km²2,597 sq mi6,302 km²2,433 sq mi6.3% smaller
Outline1,006 km625 mi788 km490 mi21.6% shorter
Centre4.06° W, 48.26° N4.1° W, 48.3° N4.08° W, 48.28° N4.1° W, 48.3° N3 km north-west2 mi north-west
Westernmost4.79° W, 48.42° N4.8° W, 48.4° N4.84° W, 48.42° N4.8° W, 48.4° N3 km beyond2 mi beyond
Easternmost3.39° W, 47.92° N3.4° W, 47.9° N3.50° W, 47.91° N3.5° W, 47.9° N9 km short5 mi short
Southernmost3.54° W, 47.76° N3.5° W, 47.8° N4.24° W, 47.80° N4.2° W, 47.8° N4 km short3 mi short
Northernmost3.98° W, 48.73° N4.0° W, 48.7° N4.02° W, 48.70° N4.0° W, 48.7° N3 km short2 mi short

Near the land border, 56% of the crowd’s lines run inside Finistère. Near the coast, 61% run inland.

Borders and 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.

Finistère’s coast: 998 km in the game, 1,019 km officially.

2 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Morbihan97 km in the game74 km the crowd’s23.7% shorter
Côtes-d'Armor90 km in the game73 km the crowd’s18.9% shorter
The coast998 km in the game1,019 km officially748 km the crowd’s25.1% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Finistère: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Finistère 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 81 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.

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