Europe · Eastern Europe
How to draw Romania from memory
Romania 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
- 19.4 m
- Code
- ROU
- Attempts
- 331
- Avg score
- 59
- Best
- 59
Draw Romania
Practice · draw from memory
Romania
A four-step strategy for Romania
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Romania 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.
Quick facts
- Continent
- Europe
- Subregion
- Eastern Europe
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 1.94
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Romania
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.
Romania is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 1.43 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
Romania occupies a 440×307 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 Romania costs nothing and buys finer control over each turn of the coast.
Answer key: the real shape of Romania
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 307 units
- Width to height
- 1.43 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.27× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Romania 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 Romania is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Romania. 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 Romania 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.
Romania by the numbers
Romania covers 238,391 km², which makes it the 80th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 12th largest in Europe. The capital is Bucharest at about 46°N, 25°E, and it sits in Eastern Europe. It touches Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Romania: 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 Romania |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romaniathis page | 238,391 km² | 19.4 m | Bucharest | 1 | — |
 Bulgaria | 110,879 km² | 7.0 m | Sofia | 1 | 0.47× |
 Hungary | 93,028 km² | 9.8 m | Budapest | 1 | 0.39× |
 Moldova | 33,846 km² | 2.7 m | Chișinău | 1 | 0.14× |
 Serbia | 88,361 km² | 6.9 m | Belgrade | 1 | 0.37× |
 Ukraine | 603,500 km² | 44.4 m | Kyiv | 1 | 2.53× |
Draw these next
Countries near Romania 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.
Romania drawing questions
How big is Romania?
Romania covers 238,391 km², ranking 80th of 190 countries here by land area and 12th in Europe. About 40% of the area of Ukraine.
What is the capital of Romania?
The capital is Bucharest at about 46°N, 25°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 Romania on a blank map.
Is Romania hard to draw?
It is rated easy, and carries more outline detail than 23% 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 Romania?
Romania shares a land border with Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.