How the crowd draws

14 drawings of its land border and 35 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 28 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Merseyside

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	815 km²315 sq mi	814 km²314 sq mi0.1% smaller
Outline	256 km159 mi	272 km169 mi6.1% longer
Centre	2.96° W, 53.44° N3.0° W, 53.4° N	2.96° W, 53.44° N3.0° W, 53.4° N0 km south-west0 mi south-west
Westernmost	3.26° W, 53.45° N3.3° W, 53.4° N	3.28° W, 53.45° N3.3° W, 53.5° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Easternmost	2.58° W, 53.45° N2.6° W, 53.4° N	2.56° W, 53.45° N2.6° W, 53.4° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Southernmost	3.13° W, 53.29° N3.1° W, 53.3° N	3.13° W, 53.29° N3.1° W, 53.3° Nthe same
Northernmost	2.96° W, 53.70° N3.0° W, 53.7° N	2.98° W, 53.69° N3.0° W, 53.7° N2 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 50% of the crowd’s lines run inside Merseyside. Near the coast, 47% run inland.

Borders and coast

4 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Lancashire	71 km in the game	64 km the crowd’s9.9% shorter
Cheshire	67 km in the game	99 km the crowd’s47.8% longer
Greater Manchester	18 km in the game	19 km the crowd’s5.6% longer
Clwyd	8 km in the game	10 km the crowd’s25.0% longer
The coast	96 km in the game	82 km the crowd’s14.6% 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 (0.3 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 (0.4 MB)

Where drawings start and endStarts teal, ends pink, piled up blackDownload (0.2 MB)

The drawings stacked as blocksWhere many drawings pass, the stack growsDownload (1.9 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Merseyside: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Merseyside 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 49 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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