How the crowd draws
29 drawings of its land border, from memory on Borderline’s Spain map, 18 October 2026 to 24 October 2026.
In numbers
| The real one | The crowd’s | |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 10,000 km²3,995 sq mi | 9,383 km²3,623 sq mi↓9.3% smaller |
| Outline | 700 km435 mi | 634 km394 mi↓9.4% shorter |
| Centre | 1.65° W, 42.67° N1.6° W, 42.7° N | 1.60° W, 42.67° N1.6° W, 42.7° N→4 km east3 mi east |
| Westernmost | 2.50° W, 42.62° N2.5° W, 42.6° N | 2.32° W, 42.58° N2.3° W, 42.6° N→15 km short9 mi short |
| Easternmost | 0.73° W, 42.92° N0.7° W, 42.9° N | 0.85° W, 42.93° N0.8° W, 42.9° N←10 km short6 mi short |
| Southernmost | 1.52° W, 41.91° N1.5° W, 41.9° N | 1.44° W, 41.95° N1.4° W, 41.9° N↑4 km short3 mi short |
| Northernmost | 1.67° W, 43.31° N1.7° W, 43.3° N | 1.63° W, 43.31° N1.6° W, 43.3° N=the same |
Near the land border, 58% of the crowd’s lines run inside Navarra.
Borders
| Border with | In the game | The crowd’s |
|---|---|---|
| Aragón | 247 km in the game | 239 km the crowd’s↓3.2% shorter |
| País Vasco | 193 km in the game | 133 km the crowd’s↓31.1% shorter |
| France | 159 km in the game | 177 km the crowd’s↑11.3% longer |
| La Rioja | 148 km in the game | 129 km the crowd’s↓12.8% shorter |
Watch the drawings
See every line on The Drawn Spain →How it is measured
The crowd’s Navarra: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Navarra 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 29 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s Spain 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 Navarra yourself and add your line to the next update.