Europe · Southern Europe
How to draw Greece from memory
Greece 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. It ranks among the hardest countries to draw: the border carries far more detail than a freehand stroke can capture, so anything above 50 is a strong result.
- Difficulty
- hard
- Population
- 10.7 m
- Code
- GRC
- Attempts
- 417
- Avg score
- 34
- Best
- 34
Draw Greece
Practice · draw from memory
Greece
A four-step strategy for Greece
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Greece 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.
AmberPumaQuick facts
- Continent
- Europe
- Subregion
- Southern Europe
- Outline pieces
- 3
- Detail score
- 10.99
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Greece
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 91% 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.
Not one straight edge to anchor the shape
The longest unbroken run in the whole outline is under 8% of the perimeter, and the coast folds back 2.41× on the smooth ring that would wrap it. Choose two deep inlets and one sharp promontory as anchors, and let everything between them stay approximate.
It narrows sharply toward the south
Measured across, the outline is 3.2× 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.
Answer key: the real shape of Greece
- Box on the canvas
- 335 × 439 units
- Width to height
- 0.76 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 3
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 2.41× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Greece 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 Greece is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Greece. 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 Greece 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 coastline rather than just handing you a number.
Greece by the numbers
Greece covers 131,990 km², which makes it the 95th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 14th largest in Europe. The capital is Athens at about 39°N, 22°E, and it sits in Southern Europe. It touches Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey and North Macedonia, and 91% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Greece: 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 Greece |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greecethis page | 131,990 km² | 10.7 m | Athens | 3 | — |
 Albania | 28,748 km² | 2.9 m | Tirana | 1 | 0.22× |
 Bulgaria | 110,879 km² | 7.0 m | Sofia | 1 | 0.84× |
 Turkey | 783,562 km² | 83.4 m | Ankara | 2 | 5.94× |
 North Macedonia | 25,713 km² | 2.1 m | Skopje | 1 | 0.19× |
Draw these next
Countries near Greece 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.
Greece drawing questions
How big is Greece?
Greece covers 131,990 km², ranking 95th of 190 countries here by land area and 14th in Europe. About 17% of the area of Turkey.
What is the capital of Greece?
The capital is Athens at about 39°N, 22°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 Greece on a blank map.
Is Greece hard to draw?
It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 94% 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 Greece?
Greece shares a land border with Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey and North Macedonia. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.