Africa · Western Africa
How to draw Ivory Coast from memory
Ivory Coast 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
- 25.7 m
- Code
- CIV
Draw Ivory Coast
Practice · draw from memory
Ivory Coast
A four-step strategy for Ivory Coast
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Ivory Coast 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 Ivory Coast
Nobody has submitted a score for Ivory Coast 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
- 2.34
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Ivory Coast
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.
Ivory Coast is close to square
Width against height comes out at 0.95 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.
Close the loop before adding detail
Ivory Coast occupies a 417×440 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 Ivory Coast costs nothing and buys finer control over each turn of the coast.
Answer key: the real shape of Ivory Coast
- Box on the canvas
- 417 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.95 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.49× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Ivory Coast 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 Ivory Coast is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Ivory Coast. 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 Ivory Coast 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.
Ivory Coast by the numbers
Ivory Coast covers 322,463 km², which makes it the 68th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 28th largest in Africa. The capital is Yamoussoukro at about 8°N, 5°W, and it sits in Western Africa. It touches Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Mali, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Ivory Coast: 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 Ivory Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coastthis page | 322,463 km² | 25.7 m | Yamoussoukro | 1 | — |
 Burkina Faso | 272,967 km² | 20.3 m | Ouagadougou | 1 | 0.85× |
 Ghana | 238,533 km² | 30.4 m | Accra | 1 | 0.74× |
 Guinea | 245,857 km² | 12.8 m | Conakry | 1 | 0.76× |
 Liberia | 111,369 km² | 4.9 m | Monrovia | 1 | 0.35× |
 Mali | 1,240,192 km² | 19.7 m | Bamako | 1 | 3.85× |
Draw these next
Countries near Ivory Coast 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.
Ivory Coast drawing questions
How big is Ivory Coast?
Ivory Coast covers 322,463 km², ranking 68th of 190 countries here by land area and 28th in Africa. About 26% of the area of Mali.
What is the capital of Ivory Coast?
The capital is Yamoussoukro at about 8°N, 5°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 Ivory Coast on a blank map.
Is Ivory Coast hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 40% 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 Ivory Coast?
Ivory Coast shares a land border with Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Mali. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.