Africa · Northern Africa
How to draw Tunisia from memory
Tunisia 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
- 11.7 m
- Code
- TUN
Draw Tunisia
Practice · draw from memory
Tunisia
A four-step strategy for Tunisia
- 01
Start with a tall, narrow mental guide box. Tunisia 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 Tunisia
Nobody has submitted a score for Tunisia yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Africa
- Subregion
- Northern Africa
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.63
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Tunisia
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 west edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 9% of the perimeter runs in one unbroken direction along the west. 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.
It narrows sharply toward the south
Measured across, the outline is 2.8× wider near its northern edge than near its southern one. A sketch that keeps the same width all the way down looks plausible and scores badly, because a missing taper is missing area.
Tunisia is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.47 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.
Answer key: the real shape of Tunisia
- Box on the canvas
- 208 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.47 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- 9% of the perimeter, along the west
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.22× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Tunisia 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 Tunisia is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Tunisia. 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 Tunisia 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.
Tunisia by the numbers
Tunisia covers 163,610 km², which makes it the 91st largest of 190 countries in the game and the 36th largest in Africa. The capital is Tunis at about 34°N, 9°E, and it sits in Northern Africa. It touches Algeria and Libya, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Tunisia: 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 Tunisia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tunisiathis page | 163,610 km² | 11.7 m | Tunis | 1 | — |
 Algeria | 2,381,741 km² | 43.1 m | Algiers | 1 | 15× |
 Libya | 1,759,540 km² | 6.8 m | Tripoli | 1 | 11× |
Draw these next
Countries near Tunisia 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.
Tunisia drawing questions
How big is Tunisia?
Tunisia covers 163,610 km², ranking 91st of 190 countries here by land area and 36th in Africa. About 7% of the area of Algeria.
What is the capital of Tunisia?
The capital is Tunis at about 34°N, 9°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 Tunisia on a blank map.
Is Tunisia hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 47% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 1 landmass, with about 9% of the perimeter running dead straight along the west.
Which countries border Tunisia?
Tunisia shares a land border with Algeria and Libya. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.