Asia · South-Eastern Asia
How to draw Brunei from memory
Brunei comes in 2 separate pieces on the map. The main body is roughly as wide as it is tall; sketch that first, then place the smaller pieces relative to it. 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
- 433 k
- Code
- BRN
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Brunei
A four-step strategy for Brunei
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Brunei 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 1 piece 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 Brunei
Nobody has submitted a score for Brunei yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- South-Eastern Asia
- Outline pieces
- 2
- Detail score
- 5.47
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Brunei
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.
23% of the country is not the mainland
The outline is made of 2 separate pieces, and the largest one carries only 77% 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.
The north edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 11% of the perimeter runs in one unbroken direction along the north. Rivers and capes do not do that; a border was drawn on a map. Straighten it deliberately — a wobbly line there throws the whole bounding box.
Both ends are pinched
The widest slice across the centre is 2.3× broader than either the northern or the southern edge. Place the two narrow ends early and the bulge between them cannot come out wrong.
Answer key: the real shape of Brunei
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 349 units
- Width to height
- 1.26 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 2
- Longest straight run
- 11% of the perimeter, along the north
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.23× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Brunei 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 Brunei is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Brunei. 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 Brunei 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.
Brunei by the numbers
Brunei covers 5,765 km², which makes it the 162nd largest of 190 countries in the game and the 43rd largest in Asia. The capital is Bandar Seri Begawan at about 5°N, 115°E, and it sits in South-Eastern Asia. It touches Malaysia, and 77% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Brunei: 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 Brunei |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruneithis page | 5,765 km² | 433 k | Bandar Seri Begawan | 2 | — |
 Malaysia | 330,803 km² | 31.9 m | Kuala Lumpur | 2 | 57× |
Draw these next
Countries near Brunei 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 asia and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Brunei drawing questions
How big is Brunei?
Brunei covers 5,765 km², ranking 162nd of 190 countries here by land area and 43rd in Asia. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 75.9 km on a side.
What is the capital of Brunei?
The capital is Bandar Seri Begawan at about 5°N, 115°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 Brunei on a blank map.
Is Brunei hard to draw?
It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 80% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 2 landmasses, with about 11% of the perimeter running dead straight along the north.
Which countries border Brunei?
Brunei shares a land border with Malaysia. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.