How the crowd draws

16 drawings of its land border and 26 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 28 September 2026 to 28 October 2026.

Draw Dorset

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	2,691 km²1,039 sq mi	2,641 km²1,020 sq mi1.9% smaller
Outline	353 km219 mi	363 km226 mi3.0% longer
Centre	2.30° W, 50.80° N2.3° W, 50.8° N	2.30° W, 50.80° N2.3° W, 50.8° N1 km east0 mi east
Westernmost	2.96° W, 50.82° N3.0° W, 50.8° N	2.95° W, 50.82° N3.0° W, 50.8° Nthe same
Easternmost	1.68° W, 50.75° N1.7° W, 50.8° N	1.66° W, 50.75° N1.7° W, 50.8° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Southernmost	2.46° W, 50.51° N2.5° W, 50.5° N	2.43° W, 50.59° N2.4° W, 50.6° N8 km short5 mi short
Northernmost	2.32° W, 51.08° N2.3° W, 51.1° N	2.27° W, 51.03° N2.3° W, 51.0° N5 km short3 mi short

Near the land border, 52% of the crowd’s lines run inside Dorset. Near the coast, 43% run inland.

Borders and coast

4 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Somerset	92 km in the game	109 km the crowd’s18.5% longer
Hampshire	59 km in the game	65 km the crowd’s10.2% longer
Wiltshire	37 km in the game	40 km the crowd’s8.1% longer
Devon	20 km in the game	21 km the crowd’s5.0% longer
The coast	148 km in the game	129 km the crowd’s12.8% shorter

Watch the drawings

See every line on The Drawn UK →

The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the countyDownload (0.2 MB)

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 (1.6 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Dorset: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Dorset 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 42 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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