Draw Asia’s countries from memory

One of these 45 outlines, picked at random. Sketch it, submit, and the score names the edge you actually remembered — then draw another Asia border, or skip until you get one you think you know.

How Asia adds up

These 45 outlines hold 29,394,068 km² of land and roughly 4.53 bn people between them. China alone is 9,706,961 km² of it — about 33% of the whole continent — while Singapore contributes 710 km², so the largest and smallest shapes on this sheet differ by roughly 13,672 to one. That spread is what makes a continent hard to practise evenly: the scoring compares filled area, so a country that occupies a tenth of the map cannot be sketched as carelessly as one that occupies a half.

43 of the 45 sit north of the equator, 2 south of it and 4 within five degrees of the line. 11 have no coastline at all, and between them they account for 14% of the land. China carries the most of that burden: it touches 13 other countries in this dataset, so its shape drags half the neighbourhood with it. The groups below are the subregions our outline data carries, which is also how the country pages describe themselves.

The five hardest borders in Asia

1. 01Philippinesdetail 16.39
2. 02Indonesiadetail 15.34
3. 03Japandetail 12.09
4. 04Malaysiadetail 10.59
5. 05Vietnamdetail 8.53

The list above is only the top five. Widening it to eight shows what actually drives the number: the detail score compares how much border a country carries with the land it encloses, then adds a penalty for every separate piece its outline falls into. Philippines leads at 16.39 across 11 pieces, and at the other end Singapore sits on 1.34 — the easiest shape in Asia to get roughly right.

All Asia countries

Every country in Asia: area, population and capital

Sorted largest first, the same order the map reads. Each name opens that country's own drawing guide, where the same outline is the shape you sketch and get scored against — with the strategy notes, the sector readout and the border list that explain why it lands where it does on the difficulty scale.

How to practise Asia from memory

Two routes work better than drawing countries one by one. The first is the blank map of asia: label the whole sheet, then mark what you could not place. That tells you which shapes are missing from your mental map rather than which ones you happened to click. The second is running the same continent in endless mode, which serves random well-known outlines back to back and keeps a running average, so a bad patch shows up as a trend instead of a single discouraging score.

If Asia is not where you want to start, compare it against the ranked lists: the easiest borders anywhere and the hardest are both measured from this same geometry. The five-step method covers proportion and anchor points, which is what most of these shapes actually test, and the reference tables for area and capitals give you the size ordering that makes a continent fall into place.

Other continents

• Africa
• Europe
• North America
• Oceania
• South America

Other blank maps

• World
• Europe
• Africa
• North America
• South America
• United States

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