Africa · Western Africa
How to draw Togo from memory
Togo is a single continuous landmass, taller than it is wide. 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
- 8.1 m
- Code
- TGO
Draw Togo
Practice · draw from memory
Togo
A four-step strategy for Togo
- 01
Start with a tall, narrow mental guide box. Togo is much taller than it is wide, and squashing it is the single most common mistake.
- 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 Togo
Nobody has submitted a score for Togo yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Africa
- Subregion
- Western Africa
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 3.09
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Togo
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.
The east edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 15% of the perimeter runs in one unbroken direction along the east. 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.
Togo is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.37 to 1, a vertical 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
Togo occupies a 162×440 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 Togo
- Box on the canvas
- 162 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.37 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- 15% of the perimeter, along the east
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.14× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Togo 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 Togo is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Togo. 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 Togo 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.
Togo by the numbers
Togo covers 56,785 km², which makes it the 122nd largest of 190 countries in the game and the 42nd largest in Africa. The capital is Lomé at about 8°N, 1°E, and it sits in Western Africa. It touches Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Togo: 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 Togo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Togothis page | 56,785 km² | 8.1 m | Lomé | 1 | — |
 Benin | 112,622 km² | 11.8 m | Porto-Novo | 1 | 1.98× |
 Burkina Faso | 272,967 km² | 20.3 m | Ouagadougou | 1 | 4.81× |
 Ghana | 238,533 km² | 30.4 m | Accra | 1 | 4.2× |
Draw these next
Countries near Togo 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 africa and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.
Togo drawing questions
How big is Togo?
Togo covers 56,785 km², ranking 122nd of 190 countries here by land area and 42nd in Africa. About 21% of the area of Burkina Faso.
What is the capital of Togo?
The capital is Lomé at about 8°N, 1°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 Togo on a blank map.
Is Togo hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 59% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 1 landmass, with about 15% of the perimeter running dead straight along the east.
Which countries border Togo?
Togo shares a land border with Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.