How the crowd draws
12 drawings of its land border and 31 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 28 September 2026 to 26 October 2026.
In numbers
| The real one | The crowd’s | |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 549 km²212 sq mi | 532 km²205 sq mi↓3.1% smaller |
| Outline | 150 km93 mi | 153 km95 mi↑1.6% longer |
| Centre | 1.56° W, 54.95° N1.6° W, 55.0° N | 1.57° W, 54.96° N1.6° W, 55.0° N=0 km north-west0 mi north-west |
| Westernmost | 1.85° W, 54.92° N1.9° W, 54.9° N | 1.85° W, 54.92° N1.8° W, 54.9° N=the same |
| Easternmost | 1.35° W, 54.87° N1.3° W, 54.9° N | 1.35° W, 54.86° N1.3° W, 54.9° N=the same |
| Southernmost | 1.48° W, 54.80° N1.5° W, 54.8° N | 1.44° W, 54.81° N1.4° W, 54.8° N↑1 km short1 mi short |
| Northernmost | 1.65° W, 55.08° N1.6° W, 55.1° N | 1.47° W, 55.09° N1.5° W, 55.1° N↑1 km beyond0 mi beyond |
Near the land border, 47% of the crowd’s lines run inside Tyne and Wear. Near the coast, 73% run inland.
Borders and coast
| Border with | In the game | The crowd’s |
|---|---|---|
| Durham | 58 km in the game | 60 km the crowd’s↑3.4% longer |
| Northumberland | 53 km in the game | 60 km the crowd’s↑13.2% longer |
| The coast | 46 km in the game | 37 km the crowd’s↓19.6% shorter |
Watch the drawings
See every line on The Drawn UK →How it is measured
The crowd’s Tyne and Wear: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Tyne and Wear 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 43 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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