Europe · Western Europe
How to draw Luxembourg from memory
Luxembourg 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
- 620 k
- Code
- LUX
Draw Luxembourg
Practice · draw from memory
Luxembourg
A four-step strategy for Luxembourg
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Luxembourg 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 Luxembourg
Nobody has submitted a score for Luxembourg 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
- 1.62
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Luxembourg
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.
It narrows sharply toward the north
The outline is 2.3× 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.
Luxembourg is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.69 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.
Close the loop before adding detail
Luxembourg occupies a 302×440 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.
Answer key: the real shape of Luxembourg
- Box on the canvas
- 302 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.69 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.24× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Luxembourg 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 Luxembourg is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Luxembourg. 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 Luxembourg 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.
Luxembourg by the numbers
Luxembourg covers 2,586 km², which makes it the 166th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 38th largest in Europe. The capital is the country itself at about 50°N, 6°E, and it sits in Western Europe. It touches Belgium, France and Germany, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. Being landlocked, there is no sea edge to help you orient it.
Next to Luxembourg: 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 Luxembourg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxembourgthis page | 2,586 km² | 620 k | Luxembourg | 1 | — |
 Belgium | 30,528 km² | 11.5 m | Brussels | 1 | 12× |
 France | 551,695 km² | 67.1 m | Paris | 2 | 213× |
 Germany | 357,114 km² | 83.1 m | Berlin | 1 | 138× |
Draw these next
Countries near Luxembourg 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.
Luxembourg drawing questions
How big is Luxembourg?
Luxembourg covers 2,586 km², ranking 166th of 190 countries here by land area and 38th in Europe. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 50.9 km on a side.
What is the capital of Luxembourg?
Luxembourg is a city-state: capital and country are the same settlement, which is why the outline the game asks for is a single tight loop.
Is Luxembourg hard to draw?
It is rated easy, and carries more outline detail than 9% 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 Luxembourg?
Luxembourg shares a land border with Belgium, France and Germany, so the entire outline is made of these frontiers.