How the crowd draws

5 drawings of its land border and 48 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 27 September 2026 to 28 October 2026.

Draw West Sussex

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	2,018 km²779 sq mi	1,829 km²706 sq mi9.4% smaller
Outline	245 km153 mi	271 km168 mi10.2% longer
Centre	0.50° W, 50.96° N0.5° W, 51.0° N	0.48° W, 50.96° N0.5° W, 51.0° N1 km north-east1 mi north-east
Westernmost	0.96° W, 50.89° N1.0° W, 50.9° N	0.93° W, 50.78° N0.9° W, 50.8° N2 km short1 mi short
Easternmost	0.04° E, 51.11° N0.0° E, 51.1° N	0.00° E, 50.98° N0.0° E, 51.0° N3 km short2 mi short
Southernmost	0.79° W, 50.72° N0.8° W, 50.7° N	0.79° W, 50.77° N0.8° W, 50.8° N5 km short3 mi short
Northernmost	0.18° W, 51.17° N0.2° W, 51.2° N	0.18° W, 51.15° N0.2° W, 51.1° N2 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 59% of the crowd’s lines run inside West Sussex. Near the coast, 66% run inland.

Borders and coast

3 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
East Sussex	71 km in the game	90 km the crowd’s26.8% longer
Surrey	68 km in the game	71 km the crowd’s4.4% longer
Hampshire	47 km in the game	53 km the crowd’s12.8% longer
The coast	59 km in the game	55 km the crowd’s6.8% 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 out4 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 (1.2 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s West Sussex: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside West Sussex 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 53 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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