Asia · Western Asia
How to draw United Arab Emirates from memory
United Arab Emirates 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
- 9.8 m
- Code
- ARE
Draw United Arab Emirates
Practice · draw from memory
United Arab Emirates
A four-step strategy for United Arab Emirates
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. United Arab Emirates 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 United Arab Emirates
Nobody has submitted a score for United Arab Emirates yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- Western Asia
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 2.93
Three things that go wrong when people sketch United Arab Emirates
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 south edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 16% 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.
It narrows sharply toward the north
The outline is 6.5× 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.
United Arab Emirates is close to square
Width against height comes out at 1.27 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.
Answer key: the real shape of United Arab Emirates
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 345 units
- Width to height
- 1.27 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- 16% of the perimeter, along the south
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.18× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn United Arab Emirates 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 United Arab Emirates is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of United Arab Emirates. 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 United Arab Emirates 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.
United Arab Emirates by the numbers
United Arab Emirates covers 83,600 km², which makes it the 113th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 32nd largest in Asia. The capital is Abu Dhabi at about 24°N, 54°E, and it sits in Western Asia. It touches Oman and Saudi Arabia, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to United Arab Emirates: 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 United Arab Emirates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Arab Emiratesthis page | 83,600 km² | 9.8 m | Abu Dhabi | 1 | — |
 Oman | 309,500 km² | 5.0 m | Muscat | 1 | 3.7× |
 Saudi Arabia | 2,149,690 km² | 34.3 m | Riyadh | 1 | 26× |
Draw these next
Countries near United Arab Emirates 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.
United Arab Emirates drawing questions
How big is United Arab Emirates?
United Arab Emirates covers 83,600 km², ranking 113th of 190 countries here by land area and 32nd in Asia. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 289.1 km on a side.
What is the capital of United Arab Emirates?
The capital is Abu Dhabi at about 24°N, 54°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 United Arab Emirates on a blank map.
Is United Arab Emirates hard to draw?
It is rated medium, and carries more outline detail than 55% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 1 landmass, with about 16% of the perimeter running dead straight along the south.
Which countries border United Arab Emirates?
United Arab Emirates shares a land border with Oman and Saudi Arabia. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.