Europe · Southern Europe
How to draw Montenegro from memory
Montenegro 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
- 622 k
- Code
- MNE
Draw Montenegro
Practice · draw from memory
Montenegro
A four-step strategy for Montenegro
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Montenegro 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 Montenegro
Nobody has submitted a score for Montenegro yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Europe
- Subregion
- Southern Europe
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.27
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Montenegro
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 south
Measured across, the outline is 2.2× 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.
Montenegro is close to square
Width against height comes out at 0.84 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.
Most of the mass sits to the west
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 Montenegro
- Box on the canvas
- 369 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.84 : 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 Montenegro 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 Montenegro is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Montenegro. 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 Montenegro 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.
Montenegro by the numbers
Montenegro covers 13,812 km², which makes it the 155th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 37th largest in Europe. The capital is Podgorica at about 43°N, 19°E, and it sits in Southern Europe. It touches Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Montenegro: 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 Montenegro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montenegrothis page | 13,812 km² | 622 k | Podgorica | 1 | — |
 Albania | 28,748 km² | 2.9 m | Tirana | 1 | 2.08× |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina | 51,209 km² | 3.3 m | Sarajevo | 1 | 3.71× |
 Croatia | 56,594 km² | 4.1 m | Zagreb | 1 | 4.1× |
 Serbia | 88,361 km² | 6.9 m | Belgrade | 1 | 6.4× |
Draw these next
Countries near Montenegro 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.
Montenegro drawing questions
How big is Montenegro?
Montenegro covers 13,812 km², ranking 155th of 190 countries here by land area and 37th in Europe. About 16% of the area of Serbia.
What is the capital of Montenegro?
The capital is Podgorica at about 43°N, 19°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 Montenegro on a blank map.
Is Montenegro hard to draw?
It is rated easy, and carries more outline detail than 35% 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 Montenegro?
Montenegro shares a land border with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.