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How the crowd draws

17 drawings of its land border and 52 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s France map, 25 September 2026 to 25 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area5,861 km²2,263 sq mi4,773 km²1,843 sq mi18.6% smaller
Outline618 km384 mi619 km385 mi0.2% longer
Centre4.18° E, 43.99° N4.2° E, 44.0° N4.20° E, 43.99° N4.2° E, 44.0° N2 km east1 mi east
Westernmost3.26° E, 44.09° N3.3° E, 44.1° N3.27° E, 44.09° N3.3° E, 44.1° Nthe same
Easternmost4.85° E, 44.00° N4.8° E, 44.0° N4.81° E, 44.01° N4.8° E, 44.0° N3 km short2 mi short
Southernmost4.23° E, 43.46° N4.2° E, 43.5° N4.18° E, 43.48° N4.2° E, 43.5° N3 km short2 mi short
Northernmost4.00° E, 44.46° N4.0° E, 44.5° N4.46° E, 44.33° N4.5° E, 44.3° N14 km short9 mi short

Near the land border, 63% of the crowd’s lines run inside Gard. Near the coast, 69% 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.

Gard’s coast: 19 km in the game, 40 km officially.

6 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Hérault166 km in the game177 km the crowd’s6.6% longer
Lozère129 km in the game151 km the crowd’s17.1% longer
Ardèche109 km in the game95 km the crowd’s12.8% shorter
Bouches-du-Rhône104 km in the game90 km the crowd’s13.5% shorter
Vaucluse57 km in the game52 km the crowd’s8.8% shorter
Aveyron56 km in the game64 km the crowd’s14.3% longer
The coast19 km in the game40 km officially12 km the crowd’s36.8% shorter

How it is measured

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