How the crowd draws
159 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s Germany map, 25 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.
In numbers
| The real one | The crowd’s | |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 888 km²343 sq mi | 838 km²324 sq mi↓5.6% smaller |
| Outline | 219 km136 mi | 197 km122 mi↓10.1% shorter |
| Centre | 13.40° E, 52.50° N13.4° E, 52.5° N | 13.41° E, 52.50° N13.4° E, 52.5° N=0 km north-east0 mi north-east |
| Westernmost | 13.09° E, 52.42° N13.1° E, 52.4° N | 13.12° E, 52.51° N13.1° E, 52.5° N→2 km short1 mi short |
| Easternmost | 13.76° E, 52.44° N13.8° E, 52.4° N | 13.73° E, 52.44° N13.7° E, 52.4° N←2 km short1 mi short |
| Southernmost | 13.65° E, 52.34° N13.6° E, 52.3° N | 13.42° E, 52.37° N13.4° E, 52.4° N↑4 km short2 mi short |
| Northernmost | 13.48° E, 52.67° N13.5° E, 52.7° N | 13.31° E, 52.67° N13.3° E, 52.7° N↓1 km short1 mi short |
Near the land border, 53% of the crowd’s lines run inside Berlin.
Borders
| Border with | In the game | The crowd’s |
|---|---|---|
| Brandenburg | 221 km in the game | 199 km the crowd’s↓10.0% shorter |
Watch the drawings
See every line on The Drawn Germany →How it is measured
The crowd’s Berlin: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Berlin 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 159 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s Germany 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.
Measuring how far the crowd moves the centre was Matt Forrest’s idea (forrest.nyc).
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