How the crowd draws
31 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s Mexico map, 1 October 2026 to 28 October 2026.
In numbers
| The real one | The crowd’s | |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 64,000 km²25,000 sq mi | 56,000 km²21,000 sq mi↓13.4% smaller |
| Outline | 1,834 km1,140 mi | 1,662 km1,033 mi↓9.4% shorter |
| Centre | 99.97° W, 25.56° N100.0° W, 25.6° N | 99.98° W, 25.59° N100.0° W, 25.6° N↑3 km north2 mi north |
| Westernmost | 101.20° W, 26.37° N101.2° W, 26.4° N | 100.99° W, 26.25° N101.0° W, 26.3° N→21 km short13 mi short |
| Easternmost | 98.42° W, 25.48° N98.4° W, 25.5° N | 98.79° W, 25.45° N98.8° W, 25.4° N←37 km short23 mi short |
| Southernmost | 100.34° W, 23.16° N100.3° W, 23.2° N | 100.12° W, 23.41° N100.1° W, 23.4° N↑27 km short17 mi short |
| Northernmost | 100.19° W, 27.80° N100.2° W, 27.8° N | 100.13° W, 27.82° N100.1° W, 27.8° N↑2 km beyond1 mi beyond |
Near the land border, 58% of the crowd’s lines run inside Nuevo León.
Borders
| Border with | In the game | The crowd’s |
|---|---|---|
| Tamaulipas | 882 km in the game | 785 km the crowd’s↓11.0% shorter |
| Coahuila | 703 km in the game | 664 km the crowd’s↓5.5% shorter |
| San Luis Potosí | 269 km in the game | 231 km the crowd’s↓14.1% shorter |
| United States of America | 14 km in the game | 13 km the crowd’s↓7.1% shorter |
| Zacatecas | 11 km in the game | 10 km the crowd’s↓9.1% shorter |
Watch the drawings
See every line on The Drawn Mexico →How it is measured
The crowd’s Nuevo León: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Nuevo León 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 31 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s Mexico 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).
Draw Nuevo León yourself and add your line to the next update.