Asia · South-Eastern Asia
How to draw Vietnam from memory
Vietnam is a single continuous landmass, taller than it is wide. Lock that proportion in before you worry about any individual stretch of border. It ranks among the hardest countries to draw: the border carries far more detail than a freehand stroke can capture, so anything above 50 is a strong result.
- Difficulty
- hard
- Population
- 96.5 m
- Code
- VNM
Draw Vietnam
Practice · draw from memory
Vietnam
A four-step strategy for Vietnam
- 01
Start with a tall, narrow mental guide box. Vietnam 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 Vietnam
Nobody has submitted a score for Vietnam yet. Draw it above and you are first on this board.
Full leaderboard →Quick facts
- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- South-Eastern Asia
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 8.53
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Vietnam
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.
Not one straight edge to anchor the shape
The longest unbroken run in the whole outline is under 8% of the perimeter, and the coast folds back 2.27× on the smooth ring that would wrap it. Choose two deep inlets and one sharp promontory as anchors, and let everything between them stay approximate.
Vietnam is taller than it is wide
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 0.48 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
Vietnam occupies a 209×440 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 Vietnam
- Box on the canvas
- 209 × 440 units
- Width to height
- 0.48 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- Nothing over 8% of the perimeter
- Coast against silhouette
- 2.27× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Vietnam 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 Vietnam is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Vietnam. 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 Vietnam 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 coastline rather than just handing you a number.
Vietnam by the numbers
Vietnam covers 331,212 km², which makes it the 65th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 18th largest in Asia. The capital is Hanoi at about 16°N, 108°E, and it sits in South-Eastern Asia. It touches Cambodia, China and Laos, and 100% of its area sits in one main landmass. The rest of the perimeter is water.
Next to Vietnam: 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 Vietnam |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vietnamthis page | 331,212 km² | 96.5 m | Hanoi | 1 | — |
 Cambodia | 181,035 km² | 16.5 m | Phnom Penh | 1 | 0.55× |
 China | 9,706,961 km² | 1.40 bn | Beijing | 1 | 29× |
 Laos | 236,800 km² | 7.2 m | Vientiane | 1 | 0.71× |
Draw these next
Countries near Vietnam 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.
Vietnam drawing questions
How big is Vietnam?
Vietnam covers 331,212 km², ranking 65th of 190 countries here by land area and 18th in Asia. Small enough to lie inside a square roughly 575.5 km on a side.
What is the capital of Vietnam?
The capital is Hanoi at about 16°N, 108°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 Vietnam on a blank map.
Is Vietnam hard to draw?
It is rated hard, and carries more outline detail than 91% 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 Vietnam?
Vietnam shares a land border with Cambodia, China and Laos. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.