Europe · Northern Europe
How to draw Estonia from memory
Estonia comes in 3 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
- 1.3 m
- Code
- EST
Draw Estonia
Practice · draw from memory
Estonia
A four-step strategy for Estonia
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Estonia 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 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.
Top scores for Estonia
Nobody has submitted a score for Estonia yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Europe
- Subregion
- Northern Europe
- Outline pieces
- 3
- Detail score
- 3.61
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Estonia
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.
9% of the country is not the mainland
The outline is made of 3 separate pieces, and the largest one carries only 92% 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.
It narrows sharply toward the south
Measured across, the outline is 2.6× 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.
Estonia is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 1.55 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.
Answer key: the real shape of Estonia
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 283 units
- Width to height
- 1.55 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 3
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.22× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Estonia 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 Estonia is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Estonia. 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 Estonia 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.
Estonia by the numbers
Estonia covers 45,227 km², which makes it the 128th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 28th largest in Europe. The capital is Tallinn at about 59°N, 26°E, and it sits in Northern Europe. It touches Latvia and Russia, and 92% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Estonia: 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 Estonia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estoniathis page | 45,227 km² | 1.3 m | Tallinn | 3 | — |
 Latvia | 64,559 km² | 1.9 m | Riga | 1 | 1.43× |
 Russia | 17,098,242 km² | 144.4 m | Moscow | 1 | 378× |
Draw these next
Countries near Estonia 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 europe and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Estonia drawing questions
How big is Estonia?
Estonia covers 45,227 km², ranking 128th of 190 countries here by land area and 28th in Europe. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 212.7 km on a side.
What is the capital of Estonia?
The capital is Tallinn at about 59°N, 26°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 Estonia on a blank map.
Is Estonia hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 69% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 3 landmasses, with no straight edge longer than 8% of the perimeter to anchor it.
Which countries border Estonia?
Estonia shares a land border with Latvia and Russia. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.