North America · Caribbean
How to draw Dominican Republic from memory
Dominican Republic 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
- 10.7 m
- Code
- DOM
Draw Dominican Republic
Practice · draw from memory
Dominican Republic
A four-step strategy for Dominican Republic
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Dominican Republic 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 Dominican Republic
Nobody has submitted a score for Dominican Republic yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
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- Continent
- North America
- Subregion
- Caribbean
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.47
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Dominican Republic
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.
It narrows sharply toward the south
Measured across, the outline is 4.1× wider near its northern edge than near its southern one. A sketch that keeps the same width all the way down looks plausible and scores badly, because a missing taper is missing area.
Dominican Republic is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 1.52 to 1, a horizontal shape. Most failed attempts come from defaulting to a squarish blob — and unlike position, aspect ratio is never normalised away by the scorer.
Most of the mass sits to the west
The area centre is well off the middle of the outline, and the thin side is the part people extend too early. Draw the heavy side first and let the tail grow out of it.
Answer key: the real shape of Dominican Republic
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 289 units
- Width to height
- 1.52 : 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 Dominican Republic 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 Dominican Republic is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Dominican Republic. 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 Dominican Republic 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.
Dominican Republic by the numbers
Dominican Republic covers 48,671 km², which makes it the 127th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 9th largest in North America. The capital is Santo Domingo at about 19°N, 71°W, and it sits in Caribbean. It touches Haiti, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Dominican Republic: 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 Dominican Republic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominican Republicthis page | 48,671 km² | 10.7 m | Santo Domingo | 1 | — |
 Haiti | 27,750 km² | 11.3 m | Port-au-Prince | 2 | 0.57× |
Draw these next
Countries near Dominican Republic 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.
Dominican Republic drawing questions
How big is Dominican Republic?
Dominican Republic covers 48,671 km², ranking 127th of 190 countries here by land area and 9th in North America. That is 1.8 times the area of Haiti.
What is the capital of Dominican Republic?
The capital is Santo Domingo at about 19°N, 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 Dominican Republic on a blank map.
Is Dominican Republic hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 46% 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 Dominican Republic?
Dominican Republic shares a land border with Haiti. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.