Europe · Western Europe
How to draw Liechtenstein from memory
Liechtenstein is a single continuous landmass, taller than it is wide. 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
- 38 k
- Code
- LIE
Draw Liechtenstein
Practice · draw from memory
Liechtenstein
A four-step strategy for Liechtenstein
- 01
Start with a tall, narrow mental guide box. Liechtenstein is much taller than it is wide, and squashing it is the single most common mistake.
- 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 Liechtenstein
Nobody has submitted a score for Liechtenstein yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Europe
- Subregion
- Western Europe
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 1.83
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Liechtenstein
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 20% 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.
It narrows sharply toward the north
The outline is 5.1× wider at the bottom of the shape than at the top, so the broad part belongs in the south. Most failed sketches here put the wide section at the wrong end.
Liechtenstein is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.42 to 1, a vertical 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 Liechtenstein
- Box on the canvas
- 184 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.42 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- 20% of the perimeter, along the west
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.08× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Liechtenstein 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 Liechtenstein is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Liechtenstein. 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 Liechtenstein 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.
Liechtenstein by the numbers
Liechtenstein covers 160 km², which makes it the 185th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 41st largest in Europe. The capital is Vaduz at about 47°N, 10°E, and it sits in Western Europe. It touches Austria and Switzerland, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. Being landlocked, there is no sea edge to help you orient it.
Next to Liechtenstein: 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 Liechtenstein |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liechtensteinthis page | 160 km² | 38 k | Vaduz | 1 | — |
 Austria | 83,871 km² | 8.9 m | Vienna | 1 | 524× |
 Switzerland | 41,284 km² | 8.6 m | Bern | 1 | 258× |
Draw these next
Countries near Liechtenstein 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 europe and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Liechtenstein drawing questions
How big is Liechtenstein?
Liechtenstein covers 160 km², ranking 185th of 190 countries here by land area and 41st in Europe. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 12.6 km on a side.
What is the capital of Liechtenstein?
The capital is Vaduz at about 47°N, 10°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 Liechtenstein on a blank map.
Is Liechtenstein hard to draw?
It is rated easy, and carries more outline detail than 17% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 1 landmass, with about 20% of the perimeter running dead straight along the west.
Which countries border Liechtenstein?
Liechtenstein shares a land border with Austria and Switzerland; about 20% of the outline runs dead straight along the west, because that frontier was drawn on a map rather than along a river.