Africa · Western Africa
How to draw Ghana from memory
Ghana 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 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
- 30.4 m
- Code
- GHA
Draw Ghana
Practice · draw from memory
Ghana
A four-step strategy for Ghana
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Ghana 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 Ghana
Nobody has submitted a score for Ghana yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Africa
- Subregion
- Western Africa
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 1.79
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Ghana
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.
Ghana is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.69 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.
Close the loop before adding detail
Ghana occupies a 301×440 unit box on the game canvas. Fill that box with one continuous closed stroke first: the scorer compares filled area, so an open outline loses the interior it never enclosed.
Draw it bigger than feels natural
Position and size are normalised away before scoring, so a large sketch of Ghana costs nothing and buys finer control over each turn of the coast.
Answer key: the real shape of Ghana
- Box on the canvas
- 301 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.69 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.23× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Ghana 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 Ghana is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Ghana. 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 Ghana 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.
Ghana by the numbers
Ghana covers 238,533 km², which makes it the 79th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 33rd largest in Africa. The capital is Accra at about 8°N, 2°W, and it sits in Western Africa. It touches Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Togo, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Ghana: 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 Ghana |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghanathis page | 238,533 km² | 30.4 m | Accra | 1 | — |
 Burkina Faso | 272,967 km² | 20.3 m | Ouagadougou | 1 | 1.14× |
 Ivory Coast | 322,463 km² | 25.7 m | Yamoussoukro | 1 | 1.35× |
 Togo | 56,785 km² | 8.1 m | Lomé | 1 | 0.24× |
Draw these next
Countries near Ghana 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.
Ghana drawing questions
How big is Ghana?
Ghana covers 238,533 km², ranking 79th of 190 countries here by land area and 33rd in Africa. About 74% of the area of Ivory Coast.
What is the capital of Ghana?
The capital is Accra at about 8°N, 2°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 Ghana on a blank map.
Is Ghana hard to draw?
It is rated easy, and carries more outline detail than 15% 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 Ghana?
Ghana shares a land border with Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Togo. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.