South America
How to draw Argentina from memory
Argentina is a single continuous landmass, taller than it is wide. Lock that proportion in before you worry about any individual stretch of border. It ranks among the hardest countries to draw: the border carries far more detail than a freehand stroke can capture, so anything above 50 is a strong result.
- Difficulty
- hard
- Population
- 44.9 m
- Code
- ARG
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Practice · draw from memory
Argentina
A four-step strategy for Argentina
- 01
Start with a tall, narrow mental guide box. Argentina is much taller than it is wide, and squashing it is the single most common mistake.
- 02
Anchor one unmistakable feature — the straightest border section or the sharpest cape — and draw outward from it in a single continuous stroke.
- 03
Close the loop back to where you started. An open shape gets filled unpredictably and drags your score down.
- 04
Submit, read the nine-sector grid, and redraw immediately. The sector readout names the region you under-drew, and a second attempt typically gains 10–20 points.
Top scores for Argentina
Nobody has submitted a score for Argentina yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
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- Continent
- South America
- Subregion
- South America
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 3.71
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Argentina
Each one is measured off the outline the game scores, not copied from a reference atlas: the proportions, the straight sections and the way the shape breaks into pieces are all properties of the coordinates your stroke gets compared against.
It narrows sharply toward the south
Measured across, the outline is 2.5× wider near its northern edge than near its southern one. A sketch that keeps the same width all the way down looks plausible and scores badly, because a missing taper is missing area.
Argentina is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.51 to 1, a vertical shape. Most failed attempts come from defaulting to a squarish blob — and unlike position, aspect ratio is never normalised away by the scorer.
Most of the mass sits to the west
The area centre is well off the middle of the outline, and the thin side is the part people extend too early. Draw the heavy side first and let the tail grow out of it.
Answer key: the real shape of Argentina
- Box on the canvas
- 223 × 439 units
- Width to height
- 0.51 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.35× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Argentina at least once. Seeing the shape first replaces the recall the score is meant to measure with tracing, and tracing always scores higher than remembering.
Why Argentina is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Argentina. It scales and centres both your stroke and the real border into the same box, fills them, and measures how much of the two shapes overlap relative to their combined area. That means you are never punished for drawing Argentina small, off to one side, or rotated slightly — only for getting the shape itself wrong. The nine-sector grid then splits the real border into a 3×3 mesh and reports coverage per cell, which is how it can tell you that you lost the whole coastline rather than just handing you a number.
Argentina by the numbers
Argentina covers 2,780,400 km², which makes it the 8th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 2nd largest in South America. The capital is Buenos Aires at about 34°S, 64°W, and it sits in South America. It touches Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Argentina: its land neighbours
Size is what the outline has to fill, so comparing the countries that share this border side by side is the fastest way to get the proportions into your head before you draw.
| Country | Area | Population | Capital | Pieces | vs Argentina |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentinathis page | 2,780,400 km² | 44.9 m | Buenos Aires | 1 | — |
 Bolivia | 1,098,581 km² | 11.5 m | Sucre | 1 | 0.4× |
 Brazil | 8,515,767 km² | 211.0 m | Brasília | 1 | 3.06× |
 Chile | 756,102 km² | 19.0 m | Santiago | 2 | 0.27× |
 Paraguay | 406,752 km² | 7.0 m | Asunción | 1 | 0.15× |
 Uruguay | 181,034 km² | 3.5 m | Montevideo | 1 | 0.07× |
Draw these next
Countries near Argentina share border conventions and coastline styles, which makes them the most useful follow-up practice.
Working through one country at a time is slow. Take the blank map of south america and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Argentina drawing questions
How big is Argentina?
Argentina covers 2,780,400 km², ranking 8th of 190 countries here by land area and 2nd in South America. About 33% of the area of Brazil.
What is the capital of Argentina?
The capital is Buenos Aires at about 34°S, 64°W. The game scores the shape of the border rather than the position of any city, so the capital and its coordinates are here to help you place Argentina on a blank map.
Is Argentina hard to draw?
It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 70% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 1 landmass, with no straight edge longer than 8% of the perimeter to anchor it.
Which countries border Argentina?
Argentina shares a land border with Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.