South America
How to draw Guyana from memory
Guyana 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
- 783 k
- Code
- GUY
Draw Guyana
Practice · draw from memory
Guyana
A four-step strategy for Guyana
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Guyana 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 Guyana
Nobody has submitted a score for Guyana yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- South America
- Subregion
- South America
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.83
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Guyana
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 1.69× 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.
Guyana is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.67 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
Guyana occupies a 293×440 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.
Answer key: the real shape of Guyana
- Box on the canvas
- 293 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.67 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.69× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Guyana 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 Guyana is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Guyana. 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 Guyana 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.
Guyana by the numbers
Guyana covers 214,969 km², which makes it the 82nd largest of 190 countries in the game and the 10th largest in South America. The capital is Georgetown at about 5°N, 59°W, and it sits in South America. It touches Brazil, Suriname and Venezuela, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Guyana: 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 Guyana |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guyanathis page | 214,969 km² | 783 k | Georgetown | 1 | — |
 Brazil | 8,515,767 km² | 211.0 m | Brasília | 1 | 40× |
 Suriname | 163,820 km² | 581 k | Paramaribo | 1 | 0.76× |
 Venezuela | 916,445 km² | 28.5 m | Caracas | 1 | 4.26× |
Draw these next
Countries near Guyana 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 south america and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Guyana drawing questions
How big is Guyana?
Guyana covers 214,969 km², ranking 82nd of 190 countries here by land area and 10th in South America. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 463.6 km on a side.
What is the capital of Guyana?
The capital is Georgetown at about 5°N, 59°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 Guyana on a blank map.
Is Guyana hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 51% 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 Guyana?
Guyana shares a land border with Brazil, Suriname and Venezuela. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.