Europe · Western Europe
How to draw Austria from memory
Austria is a single continuous landmass, wider than it is tall. Lock that proportion in before you worry about any individual stretch of border. Its border sits in the middle of the difficulty range — enough straight sections to anchor you, enough detail to punish a careless stroke.
- Difficulty
- medium
- Population
- 8.9 m
- Code
- AUT
- Attempts
- 119
- Avg score
- 55
- Best
- 55
Draw Austria
Practice · draw from memory
Austria
A four-step strategy for Austria
- 01
Draw a wide, shallow guide box in your head first — Austria is much wider than tall, and getting that ratio right is worth more than any single coastline.
- 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.
PlumEagleQuick facts
- Continent
- Europe
- Subregion
- Western Europe
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 3.09
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Austria
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.
Austria is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 1.97 to 1, a horizontal 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 east
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.
Close the loop before adding detail
Austria occupies a 440×223 unit box on the game canvas. Fill that box with one continuous closed stroke first: the scorer compares filled area, so an open outline loses the interior it never enclosed.
Answer key: the real shape of Austria
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 223 units
- Width to height
- 1.97 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.32× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Austria 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 Austria is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Austria. 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 Austria 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 eastern edge rather than just handing you a number.
Austria by the numbers
Austria covers 83,871 km², which makes it the 112th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 20th largest in Europe. The capital is Vienna at about 47°N, 13°E, and it sits in Western Europe. It touches Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. Being landlocked, there is no sea edge to help you orient it.
Next to Austria: 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 Austria |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austriathis page | 83,871 km² | 8.9 m | Vienna | 1 | — |
 Czechia | 78,865 km² | 10.7 m | Prague | 1 | 0.94× |
 Germany | 357,114 km² | 83.1 m | Berlin | 1 | 4.26× |
 Hungary | 93,028 km² | 9.8 m | Budapest | 1 | 1.11× |
 Italy | 301,336 km² | 60.3 m | Rome | 3 | 3.59× |
 Liechtenstein | 160 km² | 38 k | Vaduz | 1 | <0.01× |
 Slovakia | 49,037 km² | 5.5 m | Bratislava | 1 | 0.58× |
 Slovenia | 20,273 km² | 2.1 m | Ljubljana | 1 | 0.24× |
 Switzerland | 41,284 km² | 8.6 m | Bern | 1 | 0.49× |
Draw these next
Countries near Austria 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 europe and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Austria drawing questions
How big is Austria?
Austria covers 83,871 km², ranking 112th of 190 countries here by land area and 20th in Europe. About 23% of the area of Germany.
What is the capital of Austria?
The capital is Vienna at about 47°N, 13°E. 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 Austria on a blank map.
Is Austria hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 58% 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 Austria?
Austria shares a land border with Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland, so the entire outline is made of these frontiers.