Asia · Western Asia
How to draw Kuwait from memory
Kuwait comes in 2 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. 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
- 4.2 m
- Code
- KWT
Draw Kuwait
Practice · draw from memory
Kuwait
A four-step strategy for Kuwait
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Kuwait 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 1 piece 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.
Top scores for Kuwait
Nobody has submitted a score for Kuwait yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- Western Asia
- Outline pieces
- 2
- Detail score
- 2.88
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Kuwait
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.
4% of the country is not the mainland
The outline is made of 2 separate pieces, and the largest one carries only 96% 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.
The south edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 13% of the perimeter runs in one unbroken direction along the south. Rivers and capes do not do that; a border was drawn on a map. Straighten it deliberately — a wobbly line there throws the whole bounding box.
Kuwait is close to square
Width against height comes out at 1.07 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 Kuwait
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 413 units
- Width to height
- 1.07 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 2
- Longest straight run
- 13% of the perimeter, along the south
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.48× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Kuwait 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 Kuwait is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Kuwait. 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 Kuwait 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.
Kuwait by the numbers
Kuwait covers 17,818 km², which makes it the 151st largest of 190 countries in the game and the 38th largest in Asia. The capital is Kuwait City at about 30°N, 46°E, and it sits in Western Asia. It touches Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and 96% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Kuwait: 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 Kuwait |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuwaitthis page | 17,818 km² | 4.2 m | Kuwait City | 2 | — |
 Iraq | 438,317 km² | 39.3 m | Baghdad | 1 | 25× |
 Saudi Arabia | 2,149,690 km² | 34.3 m | Riyadh | 1 | 121× |
Draw these next
Countries near Kuwait 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 asia and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Kuwait drawing questions
How big is Kuwait?
Kuwait covers 17,818 km², ranking 151st of 190 countries here by land area and 38th in Asia. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 133.5 km on a side.
What is the capital of Kuwait?
The capital is Kuwait City at about 30°N, 46°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 Kuwait on a blank map.
Is Kuwait hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 54% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 2 landmasses, with about 13% of the perimeter running dead straight along the south.
Which countries border Kuwait?
Kuwait shares a land border with Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.