Africa · Northern Africa
How to draw Morocco from memory
Morocco 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. 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
- 36.5 m
- Code
- MAR
Draw Morocco
Practice · draw from memory
Morocco
A four-step strategy for Morocco
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Morocco 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 Morocco
Nobody has submitted a score for Morocco yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Africa
- Subregion
- Northern Africa
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 3.79
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Morocco
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 2.4× 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.
Morocco is close to square
Width against height comes out at 0.96 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 north
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 Morocco
- Box on the canvas
- 422 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.96 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.19× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Morocco 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 Morocco is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Morocco. 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 Morocco 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.
Morocco by the numbers
Morocco covers 446,550 km², which makes it the 56th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 25th largest in Africa. The capital is Rabat at about 32°N, 5°W, and it sits in Northern Africa. It touches Algeria and Spain, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Morocco: 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 Morocco |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moroccothis page | 446,550 km² | 36.5 m | Rabat | 1 | — |
 Algeria | 2,381,741 km² | 43.1 m | Algiers | 1 | 5.33× |
 Spain | 505,992 km² | 47.1 m | Madrid | 1 | 1.13× |
Draw these next
Countries near Morocco 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 africa and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Morocco drawing questions
How big is Morocco?
Morocco covers 446,550 km², ranking 56th of 190 countries here by land area and 25th in Africa. About 19% of the area of Algeria.
What is the capital of Morocco?
The capital is Rabat at about 32°N, 5°W. 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 Morocco on a blank map.
Is Morocco hard to draw?
It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 71% 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 Morocco?
Morocco shares a land border with Algeria and Spain. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.