  We study two-dimensional (2D) droplets of noninteracting electrons in a
strong magnetic field, placed in a confining potential with arbitrary shape.
Using semiclassical methods adapted to the lowest Landau level, we obtain
near-Gaussian energy eigenstates that are localized on level curves of the
potential and have a position-dependent height. This one-particle insight
allows us to deduce explicit formulas for expectation values of local many-body
observables, such as density and current, in the thermodynamic limit. In
particular, correlations along the edge are long-ranged and inhomogeneous. As
we show, this is consistent with the system's universal low-energy description
as a free 1D chiral conformal field theory of edge modes, known from earlier
works in simple geometries. A delicate interplay between radial and angular
dependencies of eigenfunctions ultimately ensures that the theory is
homogeneous in terms of the canonical angle variable of the potential, despite
its apparent inhomogeneity in terms of more na\"ive angular coordinates.
Finally, we propose a scheme to measure the anisotropy by subjecting the
droplet to microwave radiation; we compute the corresponding absorption rate
and show that it depends on the droplet's shape and the waves' polarization.
These results, both local and global, are likely to be observable in
solid-state systems or quantum simulators of 2D electron gases with a high
degree of control on the confining potential.
