Africa · Eastern Africa

How to draw Comoros from memory

Comoros comes in 3 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: 851 k
Code: COM

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Comoros

A four-step strategy for Comoros

01
Start with a tall, narrow mental guide box. Comoros 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 2 pieces 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: Africa
Subregion: Eastern Africa
Outline pieces: 3
Detail score: 7.06

Three things that go wrong when people sketch Comoros

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.

38% of the country is not the mainland
The outline is made of 3 separate pieces, and the largest one carries only 62% 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 west edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 24% of the perimeter runs in one unbroken direction along the west. 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.
Comoros is close to square
Width against height comes out at 1.27 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.

Answer key: the real shape of Comoros

Box on the canvas: 440 × 346 units
Width to height: 1.27 : 1
Separate landmasses: 3
Longest straight run: 24% of the perimeter, along the west
Coast against silhouette: 1.11× the wrapping outline

Why Comoros is scored this way

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

Comoros by the numbers

Comoros covers 1,862 km², which makes it the 167th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 52nd largest in Africa. The capital is Moroni at about 12°S, 44°E, and it sits in Eastern Africa. It shares no land border at all, so every metre of the outline you have to draw is coastline.

Next to Comoros: regional peers

Size is what the outline has to fill, so comparing countries of the same region side by side is the fastest way to get the proportions into your head before you draw.

Comoros compared with nearby countries: area, population, capital and the number of separate outlines the game fills
Country	Area	Population	Capital	Pieces	vs Comoros
Comorosthis page	1,862 km²	851 k	Moroni	3	—
Burundi	27,834 km²	11.5 m	Gitega	1	15×
Djibouti	23,200 km²	974 k	Djibouti	1	12×
Eritrea	117,600 km²	6.1 m	Asmara	1	63×
Ethiopia	1,104,300 km²	112.1 m	Addis Ababa	1	593×
Kenya	580,367 km²	52.6 m	Nairobi	1	312×
Madagascar	587,041 km²	27.0 m	Antananarivo	1	315×
Malawi	118,484 km²	18.6 m	Lilongwe	1	64×
Mozambique	801,590 km²	30.4 m	Maputo	1	430×

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 Comoros 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 africa and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.

Comoros drawing questions

How big is Comoros?

Comoros covers 1,862 km², ranking 167th of 190 countries here by land area and 52nd in Africa. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 43.2 km on a side.

What is the capital of Comoros?

The capital is Moroni at about 12°S, 44°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 Comoros on a blank map.

Is Comoros hard to draw?

It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 87% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 3 landmasses, with about 24% of the perimeter running dead straight along the west.

Does Comoros border any country?

Comoros has no land borders: every metre of its outline is coastline, which is why it rates as hard.