Europe · Eastern Europe
How to draw Belarus from memory
Belarus is a single continuous landmass, roughly as wide as it is tall. Lock that proportion in before you worry about any individual stretch of border. Its border is simple by world standards, which makes it a good place to build confidence — and also means a low score here has nowhere to hide.
- Difficulty
- easy
- Population
- 9.5 m
- Code
- BLR
Draw Belarus
Practice · draw from memory
Belarus
A four-step strategy for Belarus
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Belarus 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
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 Belarus
Nobody has submitted a score for Belarus yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Europe
- Subregion
- Eastern Europe
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.21
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Belarus
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.
Belarus is close to square
Width against height comes out at 1.15 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.
Close the loop before adding detail
Belarus occupies a 440×381 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.
Draw it bigger than feels natural
Position and size are normalised away before scoring, so a large sketch of Belarus costs nothing and buys finer control over each turn of the coast.
Answer key: the real shape of Belarus
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 381 units
- Width to height
- 1.15 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.33× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Belarus 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 Belarus is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Belarus. 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 Belarus 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.
Belarus by the numbers
Belarus covers 207,600 km², which makes it the 83rd largest of 190 countries in the game and the 13th largest in Europe. The capital is Minsk at about 53°N, 28°E, and it sits in Eastern Europe. It touches Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. Being landlocked, there is no sea edge to help you orient it.
Next to Belarus: 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 Belarus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belarusthis page | 207,600 km² | 9.5 m | Minsk | 1 | — |
 Latvia | 64,559 km² | 1.9 m | Riga | 1 | 0.31× |
 Lithuania | 65,300 km² | 2.8 m | Vilnius | 1 | 0.31× |
 Poland | 312,679 km² | 38.0 m | Warsaw | 1 | 1.51× |
 Russia | 17,098,242 km² | 144.4 m | Moscow | 1 | 82× |
 Ukraine | 603,500 km² | 44.4 m | Kyiv | 1 | 2.91× |
Draw these next
Countries near Belarus 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.
Belarus drawing questions
How big is Belarus?
Belarus covers 207,600 km², ranking 83rd of 190 countries here by land area and 13th in Europe. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 455.6 km on a side.
What is the capital of Belarus?
The capital is Minsk at about 53°N, 28°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 Belarus on a blank map.
Is Belarus hard to draw?
It is rated easy, and carries more outline detail than 31% 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 Belarus?
Belarus shares a land border with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, so the entire outline is made of these frontiers.