Asia · Eastern Asia
How to draw Mongolia from memory
Mongolia is a single continuous landmass, wider than 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
- 3.2 m
- Code
- MNG
Draw Mongolia
Practice · draw from memory
Mongolia
A four-step strategy for Mongolia
- 01
Draw a wide, shallow guide box in your head first — Mongolia is much wider than tall, and getting that ratio right is worth more than any single coastline.
- 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 Mongolia
Nobody has submitted a score for Mongolia yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- Eastern Asia
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.43
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Mongolia
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 3.3× 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.
Mongolia is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 2.08 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.
Close the loop before adding detail
Mongolia occupies a 440×212 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 Mongolia
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 212 units
- Width to height
- 2.08 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.23× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Mongolia 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 Mongolia is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Mongolia. 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 Mongolia 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.
Mongolia by the numbers
Mongolia covers 1,564,110 km², which makes it the 17th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 6th largest in Asia. The capital is Ulan Bator at about 46°N, 105°E, and it sits in Eastern Asia. It touches China and Russia, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. Being landlocked, there is no sea edge to help you orient it.
Next to Mongolia: 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 Mongolia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mongoliathis page | 1,564,110 km² | 3.2 m | Ulan Bator | 1 | — |
 China | 9,706,961 km² | 1.40 bn | Beijing | 1 | 6.21× |
 Russia | 17,098,242 km² | 144.4 m | Moscow | 1 | 11× |
Draw these next
Countries near Mongolia 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 asia and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Mongolia drawing questions
How big is Mongolia?
Mongolia covers 1,564,110 km², ranking 17th of 190 countries here by land area and 6th in Asia. About 9% of the area of Russia.
What is the capital of Mongolia?
The capital is Ulan Bator at about 46°N, 105°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 Mongolia on a blank map.
Is Mongolia hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 44% 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 Mongolia?
Mongolia shares a land border with China and Russia, so the entire outline is made of these frontiers.