Asia · South-Eastern Asia
How to draw Cambodia from memory
Cambodia 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
- 16.5 m
- Code
- KHM
Draw Cambodia
Practice · draw from memory
Cambodia
A four-step strategy for Cambodia
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Cambodia 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 Cambodia
Nobody has submitted a score for Cambodia yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- South-Eastern Asia
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.15
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Cambodia
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.
Cambodia is close to square
Width against height comes out at 1.20 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
Cambodia occupies a 440×366 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 Cambodia costs nothing and buys finer control over each turn of the coast.
Answer key: the real shape of Cambodia
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 366 units
- Width to height
- 1.20 : 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 Cambodia 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 Cambodia is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Cambodia. 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 Cambodia 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.
Cambodia by the numbers
Cambodia covers 181,035 km², which makes it the 87th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 24th largest in Asia. The capital is Phnom Penh at about 13°N, 105°E, and it sits in South-Eastern Asia. It touches Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Cambodia: 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 Cambodia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambodiathis page | 181,035 km² | 16.5 m | Phnom Penh | 1 | — |
 Laos | 236,800 km² | 7.2 m | Vientiane | 1 | 1.31× |
 Thailand | 513,120 km² | 69.6 m | Bangkok | 1 | 2.83× |
 Vietnam | 331,212 km² | 96.5 m | Hanoi | 1 | 1.83× |
Draw these next
Countries near Cambodia 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.
Cambodia drawing questions
How big is Cambodia?
Cambodia covers 181,035 km², ranking 87th of 190 countries here by land area and 24th in Asia. About 35% of the area of Thailand.
What is the capital of Cambodia?
The capital is Phnom Penh at about 13°N, 105°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 Cambodia on a blank map.
Is Cambodia hard to draw?
It is rated easy, and carries more outline detail than 28% 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 Cambodia?
Cambodia shares a land border with Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.