South America
How to draw Brazil from memory
Brazil 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
- 211.0 m
- Code
- BRA
Draw Brazil
Practice · draw from memory
Brazil
A four-step strategy for Brazil
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Brazil 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 Brazil
Nobody has submitted a score for Brazil yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
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- Continent
- South America
- Subregion
- South America
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 3.41
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Brazil
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 2.7× 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.
Brazil 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.
Most of the mass sits to the north
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 Brazil
- Box on the canvas
- 419 × 439 units
- Width to height
- 0.95 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.49× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Brazil 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 Brazil is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Brazil. 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 Brazil 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.
Brazil by the numbers
Brazil covers 8,515,767 km², which makes it the 5th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 1st largest in South America. The capital is Brasília at about 10°S, 55°W, and it sits in South America. It touches Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Brazil: 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 Brazil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazilthis page | 8,515,767 km² | 211.0 m | Brasília | 1 | — |
 Argentina | 2,780,400 km² | 44.9 m | Buenos Aires | 1 | 0.33× |
 Bolivia | 1,098,581 km² | 11.5 m | Sucre | 1 | 0.13× |
 Colombia | 1,141,748 km² | 50.3 m | Bogotá | 1 | 0.13× |
 Guyana | 214,969 km² | 783 k | Georgetown | 1 | 0.03× |
 Paraguay | 406,752 km² | 7.0 m | Asunción | 1 | 0.05× |
 Peru | 1,285,216 km² | 32.5 m | Lima | 1 | 0.15× |
 Suriname | 163,820 km² | 581 k | Paramaribo | 1 | 0.02× |
 Uruguay | 181,034 km² | 3.5 m | Montevideo | 1 | 0.02× |
Draw these next
Countries near Brazil 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.
Brazil drawing questions
How big is Brazil?
Brazil covers 8,515,767 km², ranking 5th of 190 countries here by land area and 1st in South America. That is 3.1 times the area of Argentina.
What is the capital of Brazil?
The capital is Brasília at about 10°S, 55°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 Brazil on a blank map.
Is Brazil hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 65% 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 Brazil?
Brazil shares a land border with Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.