Oceania · Melanesia
How to draw Solomon Islands from memory
Solomon Islands is not one shape but 14 — an archipelago. Draw the largest landmass first and treat the rest as satellites, because a handful of missed islets costs far less than getting the main island wrong. 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
- 670 k
- Code
- SLB
Draw Solomon Islands
Practice · draw from memory
Solomon Islands
A four-step strategy for Solomon Islands
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Solomon Islands 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
Finish the main landmass completely, then add the remaining 13 pieces as separate strokes. Scoring counts total covered area, so an unclosed island can hurt more than a missing one.
- 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 Solomon Islands
Nobody has submitted a score for Solomon Islands yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Oceania
- Subregion
- Melanesia
- Outline pieces
- 14
- Detail score
- 15.66
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Solomon Islands
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.
79% of the country is not the mainland
The outline is made of 14 separate pieces, and the largest one carries only 21% of the area. Sketched without the rest, the shape is short by that much even when the mainland is perfect — place the outlying piece first, then draw the mainland around it.
The south edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 10% of the perimeter runs in one unbroken direction along the south. Rivers and capes do not do that; a border was drawn on a map. Straighten it deliberately — a wobbly line there throws the whole bounding box.
Both ends are pinched
The widest slice across the centre is 2.2× broader than either the northern or the southern edge. Place the two narrow ends early and the bulge between them cannot come out wrong.
Answer key: the real shape of Solomon Islands
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 240 units
- Width to height
- 1.83 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 14
- Longest straight run
- 10% of the perimeter, along the south
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.06× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Solomon Islands 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 Solomon Islands is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Solomon Islands. 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 Solomon Islands 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.
Solomon Islands by the numbers
Solomon Islands covers 28,896 km², which makes it the 139th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 4th largest in Oceania. The capital is Honiara at about 8°S, 159°E, and it sits in Melanesia. It shares no land border at all, so every metre of the outline you have to draw is coastline.
Next to Solomon Islands: regional peers
Size is what the outline has to fill, so comparing countries of the same region side by side is the fastest way to get the proportions into your head before you draw.
| Country | Area | Population | Capital | Pieces | vs Solomon Islands |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solomon Islandsthis page | 28,896 km² | 670 k | Honiara | 14 | — |
 Fiji | 18,272 km² | 890 k | Suva | 4 | 0.63× |
 Papua New Guinea | 462,840 km² | 8.8 m | Port Moresby | 3 | 16× |
 Vanuatu | 12,189 km² | 300 k | Port Vila | 14 | 0.42× |
 Australia | 7,692,024 km² | 25.4 m | Canberra | 1 | 266× |
 Kiribati | 811 km² | 118 k | South Tarawa | 14 | 0.03× |
 Marshall Islands | 181 km² | 59 k | Majuro | 5 | <0.01× |
 Micronesia | 702 km² | 114 k | Palikir | 5 | 0.02× |
 Nauru | 21 km² | 13 k | Yaren | 1 | <0.01× |
Draw these next
Countries near Solomon Islands 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 the world and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Solomon Islands drawing questions
How big is Solomon Islands?
Solomon Islands covers 28,896 km², ranking 139th of 190 countries here by land area and 4th in Oceania. About 5% of the area of France.
What is the capital of Solomon Islands?
The capital is Honiara at about 8°S, 159°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 Solomon Islands on a blank map.
Is Solomon Islands hard to draw?
It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 98% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 14 landmasses, with about 10% of the perimeter running dead straight along the south.
Does Solomon Islands border any country?
Solomon Islands has no land borders: every metre of its outline is coastline, which is why it rates as hard.