Asia · Central Asia
How to draw Tajikistan from memory
Tajikistan 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
- 9.3 m
- Code
- TJK
Draw Tajikistan
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Tajikistan
A four-step strategy for Tajikistan
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Tajikistan 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 Tajikistan
Nobody has submitted a score for Tajikistan yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- Central Asia
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 5.11
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Tajikistan
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.
Not one straight edge to anchor the shape
The longest unbroken run in the whole outline is under 8% of the perimeter, and the coast folds back 1.86× on the smooth ring that would wrap it. Choose two deep inlets and one sharp promontory as anchors, and let everything between them stay approximate.
It narrows sharply toward the north
The outline is 4× 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.
Tajikistan is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 1.39 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.
Answer key: the real shape of Tajikistan
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 316 units
- Width to height
- 1.39 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.86× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Tajikistan 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 Tajikistan is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Tajikistan. 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 Tajikistan 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.
Tajikistan by the numbers
Tajikistan covers 143,100 km², which makes it the 94th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 27th largest in Asia. The capital is Dushanbe at about 39°N, 71°E, and it sits in Central Asia. It touches Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. Being landlocked, there is no sea edge to help you orient it.
Next to Tajikistan: 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 Tajikistan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tajikistanthis page | 143,100 km² | 9.3 m | Dushanbe | 1 | — |
 Afghanistan | 652,230 km² | 38.0 m | Kabul | 1 | 4.56× |
 China | 9,706,961 km² | 1.40 bn | Beijing | 1 | 68× |
 Kyrgyzstan | 199,951 km² | 6.5 m | Bishkek | 1 | 1.4× |
 Uzbekistan | 447,400 km² | 33.6 m | Tashkent | 1 | 3.13× |
Draw these next
Countries near Tajikistan 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.
Tajikistan drawing questions
How big is Tajikistan?
Tajikistan covers 143,100 km², ranking 94th of 190 countries here by land area and 27th in Asia. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 378.3 km on a side.
What is the capital of Tajikistan?
The capital is Dushanbe at about 39°N, 71°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 Tajikistan on a blank map.
Is Tajikistan hard to draw?
It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 79% 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 Tajikistan?
Tajikistan shares a land border with Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, so the entire outline is made of these frontiers.