Europe · Western Europe
How to draw Belgium from memory
Belgium 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 sits in the middle of the difficulty range — enough straight sections to anchor you, enough detail to punish a careless stroke.
- Difficulty
- medium
- Population
- 11.5 m
- Code
- BEL
Draw Belgium
Practice · draw from memory
Belgium
A four-step strategy for Belgium
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Belgium 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 Belgium
Nobody has submitted a score for Belgium yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Europe
- Subregion
- Western Europe
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.4
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Belgium
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 3.5× 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.
Belgium is close to square
Width against height comes out at 1.23 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
Belgium occupies a 440×357 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 Belgium
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 357 units
- Width to height
- 1.23 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.29× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Belgium 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 Belgium is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Belgium. 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 Belgium 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.
Belgium by the numbers
Belgium covers 30,528 km², which makes it the 136th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 33rd largest in Europe. The capital is Brussels at about 51°N, 4°E, and it sits in Western Europe. It touches France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Belgium: 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 Belgium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgiumthis page | 30,528 km² | 11.5 m | Brussels | 1 | — |
 France | 551,695 km² | 67.1 m | Paris | 2 | 18× |
 Germany | 357,114 km² | 83.1 m | Berlin | 1 | 12× |
 Luxembourg | 2,586 km² | 620 k | Luxembourg | 1 | 0.08× |
 Netherlands | 41,850 km² | 17.3 m | Amsterdam | 2 | 1.37× |
Draw these next
Countries near Belgium 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.
Belgium drawing questions
How big is Belgium?
Belgium covers 30,528 km², ranking 136th of 190 countries here by land area and 33rd in Europe. About 6% of the area of France.
What is the capital of Belgium?
The capital is Brussels at about 51°N, 4°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 Belgium on a blank map.
Is Belgium hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 42% 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 Belgium?
Belgium shares a land border with France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.