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How the crowd draws

18 drawings of its land border and 79 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s France map, 25 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

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In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area6,220 km²2,402 sq mi5,907 km²2,281 sq mi5.0% smaller
Outline503 km312 mi593 km369 mi18.0% longer
Centre3.37° E, 43.58° N3.4° E, 43.6° N3.40° E, 43.58° N3.4° E, 43.6° N2 km east2 mi east
Westernmost2.54° E, 43.35° N2.5° E, 43.3° N2.55° E, 43.43° N2.6° E, 43.4° N1 km short1 mi short
Easternmost4.19° E, 43.65° N4.2° E, 43.7° N4.17° E, 43.68° N4.2° E, 43.7° N2 km short1 mi short
Southernmost3.24° E, 43.21° N3.2° E, 43.2° N3.24° E, 43.21° N3.2° E, 43.2° N1 km beyond0 mi beyond
Northernmost3.75° E, 43.97° N3.8° E, 44.0° N3.75° E, 43.98° N3.8° E, 44.0° Nthe same

Near the land border, 52% of the crowd’s lines run inside Hérault. Near the coast, 59% 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.

Hérault’s coast: 86 km in the game, 122 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Gard166 km in the game188 km the crowd’s13.3% longer
Aude119 km in the game144 km the crowd’s21.0% longer
Tarn76 km in the game112 km the crowd’s47.4% longer
Aveyron68 km in the game75 km the crowd’s10.3% longer
The coast86 km in the game122 km officially88 km the crowd’s2.3% longer

How it is measured

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

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