Asia · Southern Asia
How to draw Nepal from memory
Nepal 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
- 28.6 m
- Code
- NPL
Draw Nepal
Practice · draw from memory
Nepal
A four-step strategy for Nepal
- 01
Draw a wide, shallow guide box in your head first — Nepal 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 Nepal
Nobody has submitted a score for Nepal yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- Southern Asia
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.67
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Nepal
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.
Nepal is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 1.77 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
Nepal occupies a 440×248 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.
Draw it bigger than feels natural
Position and size are normalised away before scoring, so a large sketch of Nepal costs nothing and buys finer control over each turn of the coast.
Answer key: the real shape of Nepal
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 248 units
- Width to height
- 1.77 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.14× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Nepal 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 Nepal is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Nepal. 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 Nepal 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.
Nepal by the numbers
Nepal covers 147,181 km², which makes it the 93rd largest of 190 countries in the game and the 26th largest in Asia. The capital is Kathmandu at about 28°N, 84°E, and it sits in Southern Asia. It touches China and India, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. Being landlocked, there is no sea edge to help you orient it.
Next to Nepal: 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 Nepal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nepalthis page | 147,181 km² | 28.6 m | Kathmandu | 1 | — |
 China | 9,706,961 km² | 1.40 bn | Beijing | 1 | 66× |
 India | 3,287,590 km² | 1.37 bn | New Delhi | 1 | 22× |
Draw these next
Countries near Nepal 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.
Nepal drawing questions
How big is Nepal?
Nepal covers 147,181 km², ranking 93rd of 190 countries here by land area and 26th in Asia. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 383.6 km on a side.
What is the capital of Nepal?
The capital is Kathmandu at about 28°N, 84°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 Nepal on a blank map.
Is Nepal hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 48% 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 Nepal?
Nepal shares a land border with China and India, so the entire outline is made of these frontiers.