Asia · Western Asia

How to draw Azerbaijan from memory

Azerbaijan comes in 2 separate pieces on the map. The main body is roughly as wide as it is tall; sketch that first, then place the smaller pieces relative to it. 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: 10.0 m
Code: AZE

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Azerbaijan

A four-step strategy for Azerbaijan

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Start by fixing the overall footprint. Azerbaijan is close to square overall, so a lopsided sketch loses points fast.
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Anchor one unmistakable feature — the straightest border section or the sharpest cape — and draw outward from it in a single continuous stroke.
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Finish the main landmass completely, then add the remaining 1 piece as separate strokes. Scoring counts total covered area, so an unclosed island can hurt more than a missing one.
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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.

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Quick facts

Continent: Asia
Subregion: Western Asia
Outline pieces: 2
Detail score: 4.58

Three things that go wrong when people sketch Azerbaijan

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.

5% of the country is not the mainland
The outline is made of 2 separate pieces, and the largest one carries only 95% of the area. Sketched without the rest, the shape is short by that much even when the mainland is perfect — place the outlying piece first, then draw the mainland around it.
Not one straight edge to anchor the shape
The longest unbroken run in the whole outline is under 8% of the perimeter, and the coast folds back 1.51× on the smooth ring that would wrap it. Choose two deep inlets and one sharp promontory as anchors, and let everything between them stay approximate.
It narrows sharply toward the south
Measured across, the outline is 3.1× 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.

Answer key: the real shape of Azerbaijan

Box on the canvas: 440 × 359 units
Width to height: 1.22 : 1
Separate landmasses: 2
Longest straight run: Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
Coast against silhouette: 1.51× the wrapping outline

Why Azerbaijan is scored this way

Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Azerbaijan. 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 Azerbaijan 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.

Azerbaijan by the numbers

Azerbaijan covers 86,600 km², which makes it the 111th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 31st largest in Asia. The capital is Baku at about 41°N, 48°E, and it sits in Western Asia. It touches Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Russia and Turkey, and 95% of its area sits in one main landmass. Being landlocked, there is no sea edge to help you orient it.

Next to Azerbaijan: 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.

Azerbaijan compared with its land neighbours: area, population, capital and the number of separate outlines the game fills
Country	Area	Population	Capital	Pieces	vs Azerbaijan
Azerbaijanthis page	86,600 km²	10.0 m	Baku	2	—
Armenia	29,743 km²	3.0 m	Yerevan	1	0.34×
Georgia	69,700 km²	3.7 m	Tbilisi	1	0.8×
Iran	1,648,195 km²	82.9 m	Tehran	1	19×
Russia	17,098,242 km²	144.4 m	Moscow	1	197×
Turkey	783,562 km²	83.4 m	Ankara	2	9.05×

Areas are ISO land-area figures; piece counts are how many closed outlines the game has to fill for that country, measured from the same Natural Earth geometry the borders are built from. Alaska, French Guiana and similar overseas landmasses count as extra pieces, which is why some areas look larger than the metropole alone.

Draw these next

Countries near Azerbaijan 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 asia and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.

Azerbaijan drawing questions

How big is Azerbaijan?

Azerbaijan covers 86,600 km², ranking 111th of 190 countries here by land area and 31st in Asia. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 294.3 km on a side.

What is the capital of Azerbaijan?

The capital is Baku at about 41°N, 48°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 Azerbaijan on a blank map.

Is Azerbaijan hard to draw?

It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 77% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 2 landmasses, with no straight edge longer than 8% of the perimeter to anchor it.

Which countries border Azerbaijan?

Azerbaijan shares a land border with Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Russia and Turkey, so the entire outline is made of these frontiers.