Africa · Western Africa
How to draw Liberia from memory
Liberia 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 is simple by world standards, which makes it a good place to build confidence — and also means a low score here has nowhere to hide.
- Difficulty
- easy
- Population
- 4.9 m
- Code
- LBR
- Attempts
- 76
- Avg score
- 64
- Best
- 64
Draw Liberia
Practice · draw from memory
Liberia
A four-step strategy for Liberia
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Liberia 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.
RustBearQuick facts
- Continent
- Africa
- Subregion
- Western Africa
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.17
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Liberia
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 south edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 8% 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.
Both ends are pinched
The widest slice across the centre is 2.1× broader than either the northern or the southern edge. Place the two narrow ends early and the bulge between them cannot come out wrong.
Liberia is close to square
Width against height comes out at 0.97 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 Liberia
- Box on the canvas
- 429 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.97 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- 8% of the perimeter, along the south
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.2× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Liberia 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 Liberia is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Liberia. 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 Liberia 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.
Liberia by the numbers
Liberia covers 111,369 km², which makes it the 102nd largest of 190 countries in the game and the 40th largest in Africa. The capital is Monrovia at about 7°N, 10°W, and it sits in Western Africa. It touches Guinea, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Liberia: 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 Liberia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberiathis page | 111,369 km² | 4.9 m | Monrovia | 1 | — |
 Guinea | 245,857 km² | 12.8 m | Conakry | 1 | 2.21× |
 Ivory Coast | 322,463 km² | 25.7 m | Yamoussoukro | 1 | 2.9× |
 Sierra Leone | 71,740 km² | 7.8 m | Freetown | 1 | 0.64× |
Draw these next
Countries near Liberia 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.
Liberia drawing questions
How big is Liberia?
Liberia covers 111,369 km², ranking 102nd of 190 countries here by land area and 40th in Africa. About 35% of the area of Ivory Coast.
What is the capital of Liberia?
The capital is Monrovia at about 7°N, 10°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 Liberia on a blank map.
Is Liberia hard to draw?
It is rated easy, and carries more outline detail than 30% 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 south.
Which countries border Liberia?
Liberia shares a land border with Guinea, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.