How the crowd draws

20 drawings of its land border and 48 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 26 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.

Draw Suffolk

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	3,837 km²1,481 sq mi	3,590 km²1,386 sq mi6.4% smaller
Outline	403 km250 mi	407 km253 mi1.0% longer
Centre	1.06° E, 52.22° N1.1° E, 52.2° N	1.09° E, 52.23° N1.1° E, 52.2° N2 km east1 mi east
Westernmost	0.34° E, 52.27° N0.3° E, 52.3° N	0.37° E, 52.11° N0.4° E, 52.1° N2 km short1 mi short
Easternmost	1.77° E, 52.49° N1.8° E, 52.5° N	1.74° E, 52.50° N1.7° E, 52.5° N2 km short1 mi short
Southernmost	1.32° E, 51.93° N1.3° E, 51.9° N	1.22° E, 51.95° N1.2° E, 51.9° N2 km short1 mi short
Northernmost	1.67° E, 52.55° N1.7° E, 52.5° N	1.60° E, 52.54° N1.6° E, 52.5° N1 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 50% of the crowd’s lines run inside Suffolk. Near the coast, 63% run inland.

Borders and coast

3 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Norfolk	139 km in the game	136 km the crowd’s2.2% shorter
Cambridgeshire	94 km in the game	98 km the crowd’s4.3% longer
Essex	84 km in the game	89 km the crowd’s6.0% longer
The coast	90 km in the game	87 km the crowd’s3.3% 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 out7 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 (1.8 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Suffolk: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Suffolk 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 68 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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