Asia · Central Asia
How to draw Turkmenistan from memory
Turkmenistan 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. 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
- 5.9 m
- Code
- TKM
Draw Turkmenistan
Practice · draw from memory
Turkmenistan
A four-step strategy for Turkmenistan
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Turkmenistan 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 Turkmenistan
Nobody has submitted a score for Turkmenistan yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
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- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- Central Asia
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 3.55
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Turkmenistan
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.
It narrows sharply toward the south
Measured across, the outline is 2.5× 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.
Turkmenistan is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 1.44 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.
Close the loop before adding detail
Turkmenistan occupies a 440×305 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 Turkmenistan
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 305 units
- Width to height
- 1.44 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.5× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Turkmenistan 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 Turkmenistan is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Turkmenistan. 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 Turkmenistan 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.
Turkmenistan by the numbers
Turkmenistan covers 488,100 km², which makes it the 51st largest of 190 countries in the game and the 13th largest in Asia. The capital is Ashgabat at about 40°N, 60°E, and it sits in Central Asia. It touches Afghanistan, Iran 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 Turkmenistan: 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 Turkmenistan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkmenistanthis page | 488,100 km² | 5.9 m | Ashgabat | 1 | — |
 Afghanistan | 652,230 km² | 38.0 m | Kabul | 1 | 1.34× |
 Iran | 1,648,195 km² | 82.9 m | Tehran | 1 | 3.38× |
 Uzbekistan | 447,400 km² | 33.6 m | Tashkent | 1 | 0.92× |
Draw these next
Countries near Turkmenistan 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.
Turkmenistan drawing questions
How big is Turkmenistan?
Turkmenistan covers 488,100 km², ranking 51st of 190 countries here by land area and 13th in Asia. About 30% of the area of Iran.
What is the capital of Turkmenistan?
The capital is Ashgabat at about 40°N, 60°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 Turkmenistan on a blank map.
Is Turkmenistan hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 68% 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 Turkmenistan?
Turkmenistan shares a land border with Afghanistan, Iran and Uzbekistan, so the entire outline is made of these frontiers.