Draw the Country
A geography drawing game from Geography Games. Sketch a country's outline from memory and watch the real border draw itself over your sketch.
About Draw the Country
Draw the Country is a free-to-play geography drawing game on Geography Games. You're given the name of a country — that's it, no map, no hint. You sketch its outline on a blank canvas from memory, and the server scores how close your sketch is to the real border on a 0–100 scale.
Unlike trace-the-flag or guess-the-capital games, Draw the Country tests something different: your mental picture of shape. Can you remember what Italy actually looks like? Where the Black Sea bends into Turkey? Where the horn of Africa points? Scale and position on the canvas don't matter — only how true your shape is to the real country.
Three modes are live now (Daily Challenge, Singleplayer, and Pick a Country) with 82 countries across five continents. Multiplayer 1v1 and more countries are coming soon.
How to Play Draw the Country
Each round of Draw the Country follows the same five steps. The whole loop takes about 30 seconds.
Daily Challenge for a shared global puzzle, Singleplayer for endless random rounds, or Pick a Country to practice a specific outline.
The country's name appears above a blank, square canvas. No reference map, no neighbouring countries, no scale aid.
Sketch the country's border in a single continuous stroke. Drawing it small or off-center is fine — the scorer ignores scale and position and looks only at shape.
Hit Submit. The real border animates in over your sketch in slow motion so you can see exactly where you nailed it and where you drifted.
You get a 0–100 score based on shape match (area overlap + line tracing), with a rating from "Try again" to "Cartographer."
Game Modes
Draw the Country ships with three modes today, with a head-to-head multiplayer mode coming next.
Daily Challenge Play →
One country per UTC day. Every player gets the same country, scored against the same border. Compare your score against everyone else on the global leaderboard. One attempt per day — once you've drawn it, you can't redraw until the next reset.
- · Curated European country pool (friendlier shapes for the one-shot format)
- · Global leaderboard, resets at 00:00 UTC
- · Shareable score card with the country flag and your score
Singleplayer (Random) Play →
Unlimited rounds of random countries — perfect for practice. Skip a country if you've forgotten what it looks like, or play through one to drill it. We won't repeat the same country within 15 rounds so you're not seeing Slovenia three times in a session.
- · Random pick from all 82 countries across five continents
- · Round counter and session best
- · No-repeat window of 15 rounds
Pick a Country (Practice) Play →
Choose any country in the game and draw it directly. Search by name or browse the country grid grouped by continent. Use this mode to drill a country you keep getting wrong, or to test yourself on shapes you think you know.
- · All 82 countries, grouped by continent
- · Search bar for fast lookup
- · Replay the same country until you nail it
Multiplayer 1v1 Coming Soon
Race a friend on the same country — same canvas, same timer, highest score wins. Will reuse the existing real-time multiplayer infrastructure from Multiplayer Flags and Higher or Lower Multiplayer.
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What's Coming Next
Draw the Country launched with 82 countries and three modes. Here's what's on the roadmap.
More Countries
The launch pool covers 82 well-known countries. We're adding the rest of Africa (Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique, and more), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, Panama), and Central Asia in upcoming releases. If there's a country you specifically want to see, the request list is open.
Multiplayer 1v1
Race a friend on the same country in real time. Same canvas, same timer, highest score wins. Built on the same multiplayer infrastructure that powers our existing Multiplayer Flags and Multiplayer Higher or Lower games.
Draw the Country FAQ
What is Draw the Country?▼
Draw the Country is a free geography drawing game on Geography Games. You're given the name of a country and you sketch its outline on a blank canvas from memory. The real border then animates in over your sketch and you get a 0–100 score based on how closely your shape matches the real country.
How does scoring work?▼
Your sketch and the real country border are both normalized to a unit square (so size and position don't affect the score), then compared two ways: area overlap (IoU) measures how much of the right region you covered, and line tracing distance measures how close your stroke is to the real border. The blended score lands between 0 and 100. A small ±15° rotation tolerance is built in so a slightly tilted phone doesn't cost you points, but bigger rotations are penalized.
Does it matter if I draw the country small or off-center?▼
No. Scale and position are thrown away before scoring. Drawing Slovenia perfectly in a tiny corner of the canvas scores the same as drawing it full-size in the middle. Only the shape matters.
Does rotation matter?▼
Yes — Draw the Country expects north-up orientation, because the direction a country points is part of its identity. Italy is a boot pointing south-east; rotating it 90° should not score the same. We allow up to ±15° of tilt to forgive phone-in-hand wobble, but anything past that is a real penalty.
Which countries can I draw?▼
There are 82 countries in the game right now: 39 European countries, 11 in the Americas (USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and more), 17 in Asia (China, Japan, India, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, both Koreas, and more), 13 in Africa (Egypt, South Africa, Madagascar, Morocco, Algeria, and more), and Australia + New Zealand. Use Pick a Country to browse the full list.
Will more countries be added?▼
Yes. The launch pool focuses on widely-recognized countries with distinctive shapes. Future releases will add the rest of Africa, more of Central America, Central Asia, and figure out a multi-island scoring path so Indonesia and the Philippines can join properly.
How does the Daily Challenge work?▼
Every UTC day the Daily Challenge picks one country deterministically — so every player draws the same country on the same day. You get one attempt; once you've submitted, it's locked until midnight UTC. The global daily leaderboard ranks all submissions for that day.
Is there a multiplayer mode?▼
Not yet — multiplayer 1v1 (race a friend on the same country, highest score wins) is the next thing on the roadmap. In the meantime, we have multiplayer modes in Multiplayer Flags and Higher or Lower if you want to play with someone.
Can I play on mobile?▼
Yes. The drawing canvas uses pointer events with touch-action locked so the page doesn't scroll while you're sketching. Draw the Country plays well with one finger on a phone or a stylus on a tablet.
Do I need to sign up?▼
No. Draw the Country and every other game on Geography Games is free to play with no sign-up. Daily leaderboard entries are tracked anonymously by a browser cookie — submit a display name when you finish a daily and it shows on the board.
About This Game
We are using the REST Countries API for the game logic.
Interactive map powered by Leaflet. Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0.
Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL.
