Africa · Middle Africa
How to draw Equatorial Guinea from memory
Equatorial Guinea comes in 2 separate pieces on the map. The main body is roughly as wide as it is tall; sketch that first, then place the smaller pieces relative to it. 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
- 1.4 m
- Code
- GNQ
Draw Equatorial Guinea
Practice · draw from memory
Equatorial Guinea
A four-step strategy for Equatorial Guinea
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Equatorial Guinea 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
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.
Top scores for Equatorial Guinea
Nobody has submitted a score for Equatorial Guinea yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Africa
- Subregion
- Middle Africa
- Outline pieces
- 2
- Detail score
- 2.73
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Equatorial Guinea
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.
The north edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 22% of the perimeter runs in one unbroken direction along the north. 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.
Equatorial Guinea is close to square
Width against height comes out at 1.04 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 Equatorial Guinea
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 425 units
- Width to height
- 1.04 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 2
- Longest straight run
- 22% of the perimeter, along the north
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.08× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Equatorial Guinea 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 Equatorial Guinea is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Equatorial Guinea. 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 Equatorial Guinea 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.
Equatorial Guinea by the numbers
Equatorial Guinea covers 28,051 km², which makes it the 141st largest of 190 countries in the game and the 45th largest in Africa. The capital is Malabo at about 2°N, 10°E, and it sits in Middle Africa. It touches Cameroon and Gabon, and 93% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Equatorial Guinea: 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 Equatorial Guinea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equatorial Guineathis page | 28,051 km² | 1.4 m | Malabo | 2 | — |
 Cameroon | 475,442 km² | 25.9 m | Yaoundé | 1 | 17× |
 Gabon | 267,668 km² | 2.2 m | Libreville | 1 | 9.54× |
Draw these next
Countries near Equatorial Guinea 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.
Equatorial Guinea drawing questions
How big is Equatorial Guinea?
Equatorial Guinea covers 28,051 km², ranking 141st of 190 countries here by land area and 45th in Africa. About 6% of the area of Cameroon.
What is the capital of Equatorial Guinea?
The capital is Malabo at about 2°N, 10°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 Equatorial Guinea on a blank map.
Is Equatorial Guinea hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 49% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 2 landmasses, with about 22% of the perimeter running dead straight along the north.
Which countries border Equatorial Guinea?
Equatorial Guinea shares a land border with Cameroon and Gabon. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.