Draw North America’s countries from memory

One of these 22 outlines, picked at random. Sketch it, submit, and the score names the edge you actually remembered — then draw another North America border, or skip until you get one you think you know.

How North America adds up

These 22 outlines hold 21,953,651 km² of land and roughly 570.1 m people between them. Canada alone is 9,984,670 km² of it — about 45% of the whole continent — while Saint Kitts and Nevis contributes 261 km², so the largest and smallest shapes on this sheet differ by roughly 38,255 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.

22 of the 22 sit north of the equator, 0 south of it and 0 within five degrees of the line. Every one of them reaches the sea, which means coastline — the hardest part to eyeball — carries the score here. Guatemala carries the most of that burden: it touches 4 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 North America

1. 01Bahamasdetail 15.17
2. 02Canadadetail 13.21
3. 03United Statesdetail 8.29
4. 04Mexicodetail 6.87
5. 05Saint Kitts and Nevisdetail 6.72

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. Bahamas leads at 15.17 across 14 pieces, and at the other end Barbados sits on 1.32 — the easiest shape in North America to get roughly right.

All North America countries

Every country in North America: 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 North America from memory

Two routes work better than drawing countries one by one. The first is the blank map of north america: 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 North America 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
• Asia
• Europe
• Oceania
• South America

Other blank maps

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

North America — questions