North America · Caribbean
How to draw Dominica from memory
Dominica is a single continuous landmass, taller than it is wide. 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
- 72 k
- Code
- DMA
Draw Dominica
Practice · draw from memory
Dominica
A four-step strategy for Dominica
- 01
Start with a tall, narrow mental guide box. Dominica 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
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 Dominica
Nobody has submitted a score for Dominica yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- North America
- Subregion
- Caribbean
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 1.46
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Dominica
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.
The west edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 17% 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.
Dominica is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.55 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.
The coast is 1.45× longer than its own silhouette
Measured against the smooth ring that would wrap it, the real outline is 1.45 times as long. That is where the missing points hide: bays, fjords, inlets. Do not try to draw all of them — draw the 4 deep notchs that change the shape from outside.
Answer key: the real shape of Dominica
- Box on the canvas
- 240 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.55 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- 17% of the perimeter, along the west
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.45× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Dominica 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 Dominica is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Dominica. 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 Dominica 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.
Dominica by the numbers
Dominica covers 751 km², which makes it the 171st largest of 190 countries in the game and the 16th largest in North America. The capital is Roseau at about 15°N, 61°W, and it sits in Caribbean. It shares no land border at all, so every metre of the outline you have to draw is coastline.
Next to Dominica: 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.
| Country | Area | Population | Capital | Pieces | vs Dominica |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominicathis page | 751 km² | 72 k | Roseau | 1 | — |
 Antigua and Barbuda | 442 km² | 97 k | Saint John's | 2 | 0.59× |
 Bahamas | 13,943 km² | 389 k | Nassau | 14 | 19× |
 Barbados | 430 km² | 287 k | Bridgetown | 1 | 0.57× |
 Dominican Republic | 48,671 km² | 10.7 m | Santo Domingo | 1 | 65× |
 Grenada | 344 km² | 112 k | St. George's | 1 | 0.46× |
 Haiti | 27,750 km² | 11.3 m | Port-au-Prince | 2 | 37× |
 Jamaica | 10,991 km² | 2.9 m | Kingston | 1 | 15× |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis | 261 km² | 53 k | Basseterre | 2 | 0.35× |
Draw these next
Countries near Dominica 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 north america and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Dominica drawing questions
How big is Dominica?
Dominica covers 751 km², ranking 171st of 190 countries here by land area and 16th in North America. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 27.4 km on a side.
What is the capital of Dominica?
The capital is Roseau at about 15°N, 61°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 Dominica on a blank map.
Is Dominica hard to draw?
It is rated easy, and carries more outline detail than 7% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 1 landmass, with about 17% of the perimeter running dead straight along the west.
Does Dominica border any country?
Dominica has no land borders: every metre of its outline is coastline, which is why it rates as easy even so — the coast simply does not fold back on itself.