Asia · Western Asia
How to draw Lebanon from memory
Lebanon 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
- 6.9 m
- Code
- LBN
Draw Lebanon
Practice · draw from memory
Lebanon
A four-step strategy for Lebanon
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Lebanon 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 Lebanon
Nobody has submitted a score for Lebanon yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- Western Asia
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.32
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Lebanon
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.
The west edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 8% of the perimeter runs in one unbroken direction along the west. 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.
Both ends are pinched
The widest slice across the centre is 1.6× broader than either the northern or the southern edge. Place the two narrow ends early and the bulge between them cannot come out wrong.
Lebanon is close to square
Width against height comes out at 0.76 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 Lebanon
- Box on the canvas
- 336 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.76 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- 8% of the perimeter, along the west
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.2× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Lebanon 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 Lebanon is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Lebanon. 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 Lebanon 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.
Lebanon by the numbers
Lebanon covers 10,452 km², which makes it the 160th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 41st largest in Asia. The capital is Beirut at about 34°N, 36°E, and it sits in Western Asia. It touches Syria, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Lebanon: 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 Lebanon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanonthis page | 10,452 km² | 6.9 m | Beirut | 1 | — |
 Syria | 185,180 km² | 17.1 m | Damascus | 1 | 18× |
Draw these next
Countries near Lebanon 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.
Lebanon drawing questions
How big is Lebanon?
Lebanon covers 10,452 km², ranking 160th of 190 countries here by land area and 41st in Asia. About 6% of the area of Syria.
What is the capital of Lebanon?
The capital is Beirut at about 34°N, 36°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 Lebanon on a blank map.
Is Lebanon hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 39% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 1 landmass, with about 8% of the perimeter running dead straight along the west.
Which countries border Lebanon?
Lebanon shares a land border with Syria. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.