South America
How to draw Colombia from memory
Colombia 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
- 50.3 m
- Code
- COL
- Attempts
- 137
- Avg score
- 58
- Best
- 60
Draw Colombia
Practice · draw from memory
Colombia
A four-step strategy for Colombia
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Colombia 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.
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CobaltOwlQuick facts
- Continent
- South America
- Subregion
- South America
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 3.53
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Colombia
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 2.7× broader than either the northern or the southern edge. Place the two narrow ends early and the bulge between them cannot come out wrong.
Colombia is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.73 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.
Close the loop before adding detail
Colombia occupies a 319×440 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.
Answer key: the real shape of Colombia
- Box on the canvas
- 319 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.73 : 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 Colombia 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 Colombia is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Colombia. 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 Colombia 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.
Colombia by the numbers
Colombia covers 1,141,748 km², which makes it the 24th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 4th largest in South America. The capital is Bogotá at about 4°N, 72°W, and it sits in South America. It touches Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Colombia: 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 Colombia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombiathis page | 1,141,748 km² | 50.3 m | Bogotá | 1 | — |
 Brazil | 8,515,767 km² | 211.0 m | Brasília | 1 | 7.46× |
 Ecuador | 276,841 km² | 17.4 m | Quito | 1 | 0.24× |
 Panama | 75,417 km² | 4.2 m | Panama City | 1 | 0.07× |
 Peru | 1,285,216 km² | 32.5 m | Lima | 1 | 1.13× |
 Venezuela | 916,445 km² | 28.5 m | Caracas | 1 | 0.8× |
Draw these next
Countries near Colombia 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.
Colombia drawing questions
How big is Colombia?
Colombia covers 1,141,748 km², ranking 24th of 190 countries here by land area and 4th in South America. About 13% of the area of Brazil.
What is the capital of Colombia?
The capital is Bogotá at about 4°N, 72°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 Colombia on a blank map.
Is Colombia hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 67% 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 Colombia?
Colombia shares a land border with Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.