How to draw Trinidad and Tobago from memory

Three things that go wrong when people sketch Trinidad and Tobago

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.

• 4% of the country is not the mainland

  The outline is made of 2 separate pieces, and the largest one carries only 96% 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 12% 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.

• Trinidad and Tobago is close to square

  Width against height comes out at 1.08 to 1, so the shape neither runs away sideways nor stretches vertically. Set that box first: with a near-square country almost every lost point comes from the coast detail inside it, not the footprint.

Why Trinidad and Tobago is scored this way

Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Trinidad and Tobago. 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 Trinidad and Tobago 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.

Trinidad and Tobago by the numbers

Trinidad and Tobago covers 5,130 km², which makes it the 163rd largest of 190 countries in the game and the 15th largest in North America. The capital is Port of Spain at about 11°N, 61°W, and it sits in Caribbean. It shares no land border at all, so every metre of the outline you have to draw is coastline.

Next to Trinidad and Tobago: 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.

Trinidad and Tobago compared with nearby countries: area, population, capital and the number of separate outlines the game fills

Country	Area	Population	Capital	Pieces	vs Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobagothis page	5,130 km²	1.4 m	Port of Spain	2	—
Antigua and Barbuda	442 km²	97 k	Saint John's	2	0.09×
Bahamas	13,943 km²	389 k	Nassau	14	2.72×
Barbados	430 km²	287 k	Bridgetown	1	0.08×
Dominica	751 km²	72 k	Roseau	1	0.15×
Dominican Republic	48,671 km²	10.7 m	Santo Domingo	1	9.49×
Grenada	344 km²	112 k	St. George's	1	0.07×
Haiti	27,750 km²	11.3 m	Port-au-Prince	2	5.41×
Jamaica	10,991 km²	2.9 m	Kingston	1	2.14×

Draw these next

Countries near Trinidad and Tobago 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 north america and label the whole region from memory — it shows you which neighbours you have never actually seen.

Trinidad and Tobago drawing questions