Oceania · Micronesia
How to draw Micronesia from memory
Micronesia comes in 5 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. It ranks among the hardest countries to draw: the border carries far more detail than a freehand stroke can capture, so anything above 50 is a strong result.
- Difficulty
- hard
- Population
- 114 k
- Code
- FSM
Draw Micronesia
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Micronesia
A four-step strategy for Micronesia
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Micronesia 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 4 pieces 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 Micronesia
Nobody has submitted a score for Micronesia yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
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- Continent
- Oceania
- Subregion
- Micronesia
- Outline pieces
- 5
- Detail score
- 7.24
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Micronesia
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.
38% of the country is not the mainland
The outline is made of 5 separate pieces, and the largest one carries only 63% 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.
Micronesia is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 5.73 to 1, a horizontal shape. Most failed attempts come from defaulting to a squarish blob — and unlike position, aspect ratio is never normalised away by the scorer.
Most of the mass sits to the east
The area centre is well off the middle of the outline, and the thin side is the part people extend too early. Draw the heavy side first and let the tail grow out of it.
Answer key: the real shape of Micronesia
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 77 units
- Width to height
- 5.73 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 5
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.27× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Micronesia 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 Micronesia is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Micronesia. 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 Micronesia 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 coastline rather than just handing you a number.
Micronesia by the numbers
Micronesia covers 702 km², which makes it the 174th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 10th largest in Oceania. The capital is Palikir at about 7°N, 158°E, and it sits in Micronesia. It shares no land border at all, so every metre of the outline you have to draw is coastline.
Next to Micronesia: regional peers
Size is what the outline has to fill, so comparing countries of the same region side by side is the fastest way to get the proportions into your head before you draw.
| Country | Area | Population | Capital | Pieces | vs Micronesia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micronesiathis page | 702 km² | 114 k | Palikir | 5 | — |
 Kiribati | 811 km² | 118 k | South Tarawa | 14 | 1.16× |
 Marshall Islands | 181 km² | 59 k | Majuro | 5 | 0.26× |
 Nauru | 21 km² | 13 k | Yaren | 1 | 0.03× |
 Palau | 459 km² | 18 k | Ngerulmud | 2 | 0.65× |
 Australia | 7,692,024 km² | 25.4 m | Canberra | 1 | 10957× |
 Fiji | 18,272 km² | 890 k | Suva | 4 | 26× |
 New Zealand | 270,467 km² | 4.9 m | Wellington | 2 | 385× |
 Papua New Guinea | 462,840 km² | 8.8 m | Port Moresby | 3 | 659× |
Draw these next
Countries near Micronesia 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 the world and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Micronesia drawing questions
How big is Micronesia?
Micronesia covers 702 km², ranking 174th of 190 countries here by land area and 10th in Oceania. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 26.5 km on a side.
What is the capital of Micronesia?
The capital is Palikir at about 7°N, 158°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 Micronesia on a blank map.
Is Micronesia hard to draw?
It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 88% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 5 landmasses, with no straight edge longer than 8% of the perimeter to anchor it.
Does Micronesia border any country?
Micronesia has no land borders: every metre of its outline is coastline, which is why it rates as hard.