How the crowd draws

2 drawings of its land border and 34 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 28 September 2026 to 28 October 2026.

Draw County Londonderry

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	2,108 km²814 sq mi	1,966 km²759 sq mi6.7% smaller
Outline	281 km175 mi	281 km175 mi0.2% longer
Centre	6.85° W, 54.93° N6.8° W, 54.9° N	6.85° W, 54.93° N6.9° W, 54.9° N1 km north-west0 mi north-west
Westernmost	7.41° W, 54.98° N7.4° W, 55.0° N	7.41° W, 54.95° N7.4° W, 55.0° Nthe same
Easternmost	6.46° W, 54.83° N6.5° W, 54.8° N	6.42° W, 54.68° N6.4° W, 54.7° N3 km beyond2 mi beyond
Southernmost	6.71° W, 54.63° N6.7° W, 54.6° N	6.43° W, 54.67° N6.4° W, 54.7° N4 km short3 mi short
Northernmost	6.68° W, 55.20° N6.7° W, 55.2° N	6.62° W, 55.20° N6.6° W, 55.2° Nthe same

Near the land border, 67% of the crowd’s lines run inside County Londonderry. Near the coast, 39% run inland.

Borders and coast

3 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
County Tyrone	122 km in the game	119 km the crowd’s2.5% shorter
County Antrim	71 km in the game	83 km the crowd’s16.9% longer
Ireland	30 km in the game	24 km the crowd’s20.0% shorter
The coast	60 km in the game	55 km the crowd’s8.3% shorter

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Not enough drawings yet

The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the county16 of 20 drawings needed on each side

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out6 of 10 drawings from another country needed

The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (0.3 MB)

Quickest and slowest to startBy time before the first lineDownload (0.3 MB)

Where drawings start and endStarts teal, ends pink, piled up blackDownload (0.1 MB)

The drawings stacked as blocksWhere many drawings pass, the stack growsDownload (1.4 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s County Londonderry: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside County Londonderry 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 36 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s United Kingdom 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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