South America

How to draw Chile from memory

Chile comes in 2 separate pieces on the map. The main body is taller than it is wide; 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: 19.0 m
Code: CHL

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Chile

A four-step strategy for Chile

01
Start with a tall, narrow mental guide box. Chile is much taller than it is wide, and squashing it is the single most common mistake.
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.

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Quick facts

Continent: South America
Subregion: South America
Outline pieces: 2
Detail score: 21.47

Three things that go wrong when people sketch Chile

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.

7% of the country is not the mainland
The outline is made of 2 separate pieces, and the largest one carries only 93% 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.
Not one straight edge to anchor the shape
The longest unbroken run in the whole outline is under 8% of the perimeter, and the coast folds back 1.62× on the smooth ring that would wrap it. Choose two deep inlets and one sharp promontory as anchors, and let everything between them stay approximate.
Chile is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.18 to 1, a vertical shape. Most failed attempts come from defaulting to a squarish blob — and unlike position, aspect ratio is never normalised away by the scorer.

Answer key: the real shape of Chile

Box on the canvas: 79 × 440 units
Width to height: 0.18 : 1
Separate landmasses: 2
Longest straight run: Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
Coast against silhouette: 1.62× the wrapping outline

Why Chile is scored this way

Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Chile. 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 Chile 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.

Chile by the numbers

Chile covers 756,102 km², which makes it the 36th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 7th largest in South America. The capital is Santiago at about 30°S, 71°W, and it sits in South America. It touches Argentina, Bolivia and Peru, and 93% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.

Next to Chile: 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.

Chile compared with its land neighbours: area, population, capital and the number of separate outlines the game fills
Country	Area	Population	Capital	Pieces	vs Chile
Chilethis page	756,102 km²	19.0 m	Santiago	2	—
Argentina	2,780,400 km²	44.9 m	Buenos Aires	1	3.68×
Bolivia	1,098,581 km²	11.5 m	Sucre	1	1.45×
Peru	1,285,216 km²	32.5 m	Lima	1	1.7×

Areas are ISO land-area figures; piece counts are how many closed outlines the game has to fill for that country, measured from the same Natural Earth geometry the borders are built from. Alaska, French Guiana and similar overseas landmasses count as extra pieces, which is why some areas look larger than the metropole alone.

Draw these next

Countries near Chile 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.

Chile drawing questions

How big is Chile?

Chile covers 756,102 km², ranking 36th of 190 countries here by land area and 7th in South America. About 27% of the area of Argentina.

What is the capital of Chile?

The capital is Santiago at about 30°S, 71°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 Chile on a blank map.

Is Chile hard to draw?

It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 99% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 2 landmasses, with no straight edge longer than 8% of the perimeter to anchor it.

Which countries border Chile?

Chile shares a land border with Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.