North America · Central America
How to draw Honduras from memory
Honduras is a single continuous landmass, wider than 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
- 9.7 m
- Code
- HND
Draw Honduras
Practice · draw from memory
Honduras
A four-step strategy for Honduras
- 01
Draw a wide, shallow guide box in your head first — Honduras is much wider than tall, and getting that ratio right is worth more than any single coastline.
- 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 Honduras
Nobody has submitted a score for Honduras yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
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- Continent
- North America
- Subregion
- Central America
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.78
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Honduras
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 1.54× 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 5.5× 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.
Honduras is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 1.97 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 Honduras
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 223 units
- Width to height
- 1.97 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.54× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Honduras 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 Honduras is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Honduras. 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 Honduras 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.
Honduras by the numbers
Honduras covers 112,492 km², which makes it the 101st largest of 190 countries in the game and the 5th largest in North America. The capital is Tegucigalpa at about 15°N, 87°W, and it sits in Central America. It touches Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Honduras: 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 Honduras |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hondurasthis page | 112,492 km² | 9.7 m | Tegucigalpa | 1 | — |
 Guatemala | 108,889 km² | 16.6 m | Guatemala City | 1 | 0.97× |
 El Salvador | 21,041 km² | 6.5 m | San Salvador | 1 | 0.19× |
 Nicaragua | 130,373 km² | 6.5 m | Managua | 1 | 1.16× |
Draw these next
Countries near Honduras 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 north america and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Honduras drawing questions
How big is Honduras?
Honduras covers 112,492 km², ranking 101st of 190 countries here by land area and 5th in North America. About 86% of the area of Nicaragua.
What is the capital of Honduras?
The capital is Tegucigalpa at about 15°N, 87°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 Honduras on a blank map.
Is Honduras hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 49% 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 Honduras?
Honduras shares a land border with Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.