Europe · Southern Europe
How to draw Slovenia from memory
Slovenia 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 sits in the middle of the difficulty range — enough straight sections to anchor you, enough detail to punish a careless stroke.
- Difficulty
- medium
- Population
- 2.1 m
- Code
- SVN
- Attempts
- 173
- Avg score
- 62
- Best
- 62
Draw Slovenia
Practice · draw from memory
Slovenia
A four-step strategy for Slovenia
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Slovenia 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.
CobaltFoxQuick facts
- Continent
- Europe
- Subregion
- Southern Europe
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.65
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Slovenia
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 1.9× 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.
Slovenia is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 1.52 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
Slovenia occupies a 440×290 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 Slovenia
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 290 units
- Width to height
- 1.52 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.43× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Slovenia 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 Slovenia is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Slovenia. 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 Slovenia 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.
Slovenia by the numbers
Slovenia covers 20,273 km², which makes it the 149th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 36th largest in Europe. The capital is Ljubljana at about 46°N, 15°E, and it sits in Southern Europe. It touches Austria, Croatia, Italy and Hungary, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Slovenia: 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 Slovenia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sloveniathis page | 20,273 km² | 2.1 m | Ljubljana | 1 | — |
 Austria | 83,871 km² | 8.9 m | Vienna | 1 | 4.14× |
 Croatia | 56,594 km² | 4.1 m | Zagreb | 1 | 2.79× |
 Italy | 301,336 km² | 60.3 m | Rome | 3 | 15× |
 Hungary | 93,028 km² | 9.8 m | Budapest | 1 | 4.59× |
Draw these next
Countries near Slovenia 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.
Slovenia drawing questions
How big is Slovenia?
Slovenia covers 20,273 km², ranking 149th of 190 countries here by land area and 36th in Europe. About 7% of the area of Italy.
What is the capital of Slovenia?
The capital is Ljubljana at about 46°N, 15°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 Slovenia on a blank map.
Is Slovenia 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 Slovenia?
Slovenia shares a land border with Austria, Croatia, Italy and Hungary. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.