North America · Caribbean
How to draw Bahamas from memory
Bahamas is not one shape but 14 — an archipelago. Draw the largest landmass first and treat the rest as satellites, because a handful of missed islets costs far less than getting the main island wrong. 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
- 389 k
- Code
- BHS
Draw Bahamas
Practice · draw from memory
Bahamas
A four-step strategy for Bahamas
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Bahamas is close to square overall, so a lopsided sketch loses points fast.
- 02
Anchor one unmistakable feature — the straightest border section or the sharpest cape — and draw outward from it in a single continuous stroke.
- 03
Finish the main landmass completely, then add the remaining 13 pieces as separate strokes. Scoring counts total covered area, so an unclosed island can hurt more than a missing one.
- 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 Bahamas
Nobody has submitted a score for Bahamas yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
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- Continent
- North America
- Subregion
- Caribbean
- Outline pieces
- 14
- Detail score
- 15.17
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Bahamas
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.
72% of the country is not the mainland
The outline is made of 14 separate pieces, and the largest one carries only 28% 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.
Both ends are pinched
The widest slice across the centre is 2× broader than either the northern or the southern edge. Place the two narrow ends early and the bulge between them cannot come out wrong.
Bahamas is close to square
Width against height comes out at 0.95 to 1, so the shape neither runs away sideways nor stretches vertically. Set that box first: with a near-square country almost every lost point comes from the coast detail inside it, not the footprint.
Answer key: the real shape of Bahamas
- Box on the canvas
- 418 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.95 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 14
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.19× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Bahamas 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 Bahamas is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Bahamas. 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 Bahamas 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.
Bahamas by the numbers
Bahamas covers 13,943 km², which makes it the 154th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 13th largest in North America. The capital is Nassau at about 24°N, 76°W, and it sits in Caribbean. It shares no land border at all, so every metre of the outline you have to draw is coastline.
Next to Bahamas: regional peers
Size is what the outline has to fill, so comparing countries of the same region side by side is the fastest way to get the proportions into your head before you draw.
| Country | Area | Population | Capital | Pieces | vs Bahamas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahamasthis page | 13,943 km² | 389 k | Nassau | 14 | — |
 Antigua and Barbuda | 442 km² | 97 k | Saint John's | 2 | 0.03× |
 Barbados | 430 km² | 287 k | Bridgetown | 1 | 0.03× |
 Dominica | 751 km² | 72 k | Roseau | 1 | 0.05× |
 Dominican Republic | 48,671 km² | 10.7 m | Santo Domingo | 1 | 3.49× |
 Grenada | 344 km² | 112 k | St. George's | 1 | 0.02× |
 Haiti | 27,750 km² | 11.3 m | Port-au-Prince | 2 | 1.99× |
 Jamaica | 10,991 km² | 2.9 m | Kingston | 1 | 0.79× |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis | 261 km² | 53 k | Basseterre | 2 | 0.02× |
Draw these next
Countries near Bahamas 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 north america and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Bahamas drawing questions
How big is Bahamas?
Bahamas covers 13,943 km², ranking 154th of 190 countries here by land area and 13th in North America. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 118.1 km on a side.
What is the capital of Bahamas?
The capital is Nassau at about 24°N, 76°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 Bahamas on a blank map.
Is Bahamas hard to draw?
It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 97% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 14 landmasses, with no straight edge longer than 8% of the perimeter to anchor it.
Does Bahamas border any country?
Bahamas has no land borders: every metre of its outline is coastline, which is why it rates as hard.