Europe · Eastern Europe
How to draw Moldova from memory
Moldova 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
- 2.7 m
- Code
- MDA
Draw Moldova
Practice · draw from memory
Moldova
A four-step strategy for Moldova
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Moldova 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 Moldova
Nobody has submitted a score for Moldova yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
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- Continent
- Europe
- Subregion
- Eastern Europe
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.86
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Moldova
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.
Not one straight edge to anchor the shape
The longest unbroken run in the whole outline is under 8% of the perimeter, and the coast folds back 1.83× on the smooth ring that would wrap it. Choose two deep inlets and one sharp promontory as anchors, and let everything between them stay approximate.
It narrows sharply toward the south
Measured across, the outline is 3× wider near its northern edge than near its southern one. A sketch that keeps the same width all the way down looks plausible and scores badly, because a missing taper is missing area.
Moldova is close to square
Width against height comes out at 0.79 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 Moldova
- Box on the canvas
- 348 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.79 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.83× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Moldova 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 Moldova is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Moldova. 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 Moldova 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.
Moldova by the numbers
Moldova covers 33,846 km², which makes it the 135th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 32nd largest in Europe. The capital is Chișinău at about 47°N, 29°E, and it sits in Eastern Europe. It touches Romania and Ukraine, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. Being landlocked, there is no sea edge to help you orient it.
Next to Moldova: 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 Moldova |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moldovathis page | 33,846 km² | 2.7 m | Chișinău | 1 | — |
 Romania | 238,391 km² | 19.4 m | Bucharest | 1 | 7.04× |
 Ukraine | 603,500 km² | 44.4 m | Kyiv | 1 | 18× |
Draw these next
Countries near Moldova 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.
Moldova drawing questions
How big is Moldova?
Moldova covers 33,846 km², ranking 135th of 190 countries here by land area and 32nd in Europe. About 6% of the area of Ukraine.
What is the capital of Moldova?
The capital is Chișinău at about 47°N, 29°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 Moldova on a blank map.
Is Moldova hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 53% 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 Moldova?
Moldova shares a land border with Romania and Ukraine, so the entire outline is made of these frontiers.