Africa · Western Africa
How to draw Guinea from memory
Guinea 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
- 12.8 m
- Code
- GIN
Draw Guinea
Practice · draw from memory
Guinea
A four-step strategy for Guinea
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. 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
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 Guinea
Nobody has submitted a score for Guinea 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
- 3.15
Three things that go wrong when people sketch 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.
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 1.59× 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 3.7× 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.
Guinea is close to square
Width against height comes out at 1.33 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 Guinea
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 331 units
- Width to height
- 1.33 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.59× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn 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 Guinea is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of 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 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.
Guinea by the numbers
Guinea covers 245,857 km², which makes it the 76th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 31st largest in Africa. The capital is Conakry at about 11°N, 10°W, and it sits in Western Africa. It touches Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to 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 Guinea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guineathis page | 245,857 km² | 12.8 m | Conakry | 1 | — |
 Ivory Coast | 322,463 km² | 25.7 m | Yamoussoukro | 1 | 1.31× |
 Guinea-Bissau | 36,125 km² | 1.9 m | Bissau | 1 | 0.15× |
 Liberia | 111,369 km² | 4.9 m | Monrovia | 1 | 0.45× |
 Mali | 1,240,192 km² | 19.7 m | Bamako | 1 | 5.04× |
 Senegal | 196,722 km² | 16.3 m | Dakar | 1 | 0.8× |
 Sierra Leone | 71,740 km² | 7.8 m | Freetown | 1 | 0.29× |
Draw these next
Countries near 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.
Guinea drawing questions
How big is Guinea?
Guinea covers 245,857 km², ranking 76th of 190 countries here by land area and 31st in Africa. About 20% of the area of Mali.
What is the capital of Guinea?
The capital is Conakry at about 11°N, 10°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 Guinea on a blank map.
Is Guinea hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 60% 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 Guinea?
Guinea shares a land border with Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.