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.

Daily Challenge

One country per day. Same for everyone.

Play today's country

More ways to play

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 to 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 Türkiye? 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.

Four modes are live now (Daily Challenge, Singleplayer, Connect the Dots and Pick a Country) with 82 countries across five continents, and more are added over time.

How to Play Draw the Country

Each round of Draw the Country follows the same five steps. The whole loop takes about 30 seconds.

  1. 1Pick a mode. Daily Challenge for a shared global puzzle, Singleplayer for endless random rounds, Connect the Dots for a guided outline, or Pick a Country to practice a specific outline.
  2. 2See the country. The country's name appears above a blank, square canvas. No reference map, no neighbouring countries, no scale aid.
  3. 3Draw the outline. Sketch the country's border. You can stop and carry on any time, and start a new line anywhere to add an island. Drawing it small or off-center is fine: the scorer ignores scale and position and looks only at shape.
  4. 4Submit. 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.
  5. 5Get your score. You get a 0 to 100 score based on shape match (area overlap + line tracing), with a rating from "Try again" to "Cartographer."

Game Modes

Draw the Country has four modes. Pick the one that fits how you like to play.

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 your drawing 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

Connect the Dots

Play

Dots sit on the real border to guide your line. Pick how much help you want: Practice has 30 dots, Easy 15, Medium 8 and Hard 4. Scoring is the same as in the other modes.

  • Random pick from all 82 countries
  • Four difficulty levels
  • Change the difficulty at any time

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
  • Draw freehand or with dots
  • Replay the same country until you nail it

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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 to 100 score based on how closely your shape matches the real country.

How does scoring work?

Your drawing and the real country, islands included, are lined up by their centre and size, so where you draw and how big doesn't affect the score. Then they're compared two ways: area overlap measures how much of the right shape you covered, and border distance measures how close your lines run to the real coast and borders. The blend 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. Every island counts by its size, so leaving out a small one costs a little and leaving out a big one costs more.

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, Türkiye, 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.

Which borders and islands does the game use?

Outlines follow internationally recognised borders, so Crimea is part of Ukraine and the whole island of Cyprus is Cyprus. Islands and other separate pieces count when they're big enough to draw, such as Sicily, Crete, Tasmania and Northern Ireland. Far-off territories that maps usually show in a separate box are left out, such as French Guiana, Svalbard and the Canary Islands, and the United States means the lower 48. Leaving out a small island costs a little; leaving out a big one costs more.

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 and Central Asia, and, now that islands count, archipelagos such as Indonesia and the Philippines.

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?

Draw the Country itself is singleplayer. If you want to play against someone in real time, head to Multiplayer Flags or Higher or Lower 1v1.

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.