A project titled "The Drawn World" has collected 37,500 hand-drawn border maps submitted by people worldwide. The drawings reveal how individuals from different countries and generations remember — and often disagree on — national boundaries. Contributors sketched borders from memory, producing a fascinating archive of subjective cartography.

The collection spans regions from Europe to Africa and Asia, capturing shifting borders, disputed territories, and nostalgic versions of homelands. Each drawing includes metadata about the drawer's age, location, and historical context. Researchers note that the maps expose how education, conflict, and diaspora shape geographic memory.

The project, hosted at habibicode.org, invites anyone to submit their own recollected map. Hacker News users discussed the dataset's value for understanding collective memory and the reliability of oral history. The article links to the full collection and the Hacker News discussion thread.