← France

How the crowd draws

25 drawings of its land border and 49 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s France map, 25 September 2026 to 25 October 2026.

Draw Morbihan

In numbers

Last updated on 27 October 2026
The real oneThe crowd’s
Area6,794 km²2,623 sq mi5,900 km²2,278 sq mi13.2% smaller
Outline961 km597 mi602 km374 mi37.3% shorter
Centre2.81° W, 47.85° N2.8° W, 47.8° N2.84° W, 47.84° N2.8° W, 47.8° N2 km west1 mi west
Westernmost3.73° W, 48.11° N3.7° W, 48.1° N3.70° W, 48.08° N3.7° W, 48.1° N3 km short2 mi short
Easternmost2.04° W, 47.83° N2.0° W, 47.8° N2.12° W, 47.67° N2.1° W, 47.7° N7 km short4 mi short
Southernmost3.10° W, 47.28° N3.1° W, 47.3° N3.10° W, 47.28° N3.1° W, 47.3° Nthe same
Northernmost3.08° W, 48.21° N3.1° W, 48.2° N3.13° W, 48.19° N3.1° W, 48.2° N2 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 64% of the crowd’s lines run inside Morbihan. Near the coast, 62% 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.

Morbihan’s coast: 650 km in the game, 604 km officially.

4 neighbours
Border withIn the gameThe crowd’s
Côtes-d'Armor176 km in the game182 km the crowd’s3.4% longer
Ille-et-Vilaine120 km in the game77 km the crowd’s35.8% shorter
Finistère96 km in the game79 km the crowd’s17.7% shorter
Loire-Atlantique60 km in the game52 km the crowd’s13.3% shorter
The coast650 km in the game604 km officially284 km the crowd’s56.3% shorter

How it is measured

The crowd’s Morbihan: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Morbihan 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 74 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 Morbihan yourself and add your line to the next update.