South America
How to draw Bolivia from memory
Bolivia 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
- 11.5 m
- Code
- BOL
- Attempts
- 390
- Avg score
- 66
- Best
- 66
Draw Bolivia
Practice · draw from memory
Bolivia
A four-step strategy for Bolivia
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Bolivia 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.
SageOrcaQuick facts
- Continent
- South America
- Subregion
- South America
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.2
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Bolivia
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.
Both ends are pinched
The widest slice across the centre is 1.8× broader than either the northern or the southern edge. Place the two narrow ends early and the bulge between them cannot come out wrong.
Bolivia is close to square
Width against height comes out at 0.88 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.
Most of the mass sits to the west
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.
Answer key: the real shape of Bolivia
- Box on the canvas
- 388 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.88 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.35× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Bolivia 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 Bolivia is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Bolivia. 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 Bolivia 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.
Bolivia by the numbers
Bolivia covers 1,098,581 km², which makes it the 26th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 5th largest in South America. The capital is Sucre at about 17°S, 65°W, and it sits in South America. It touches Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. Being landlocked, there is no sea edge to help you orient it.
Next to Bolivia: 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 Bolivia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boliviathis page | 1,098,581 km² | 11.5 m | Sucre | 1 | — |
 Argentina | 2,780,400 km² | 44.9 m | Buenos Aires | 1 | 2.53× |
 Brazil | 8,515,767 km² | 211.0 m | Brasília | 1 | 7.75× |
 Chile | 756,102 km² | 19.0 m | Santiago | 2 | 0.69× |
 Paraguay | 406,752 km² | 7.0 m | Asunción | 1 | 0.37× |
 Peru | 1,285,216 km² | 32.5 m | Lima | 1 | 1.17× |
Draw these next
Countries near Bolivia 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 south america and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Bolivia drawing questions
How big is Bolivia?
Bolivia covers 1,098,581 km², ranking 26th of 190 countries here by land area and 5th in South America. About 13% of the area of Brazil.
What is the capital of Bolivia?
The capital is Sucre at about 17°S, 65°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 Bolivia on a blank map.
Is Bolivia 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 Bolivia?
Bolivia shares a land border with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru, so the entire outline is made of these frontiers.