Asia · Western Asia
How to draw Yemen from memory
Yemen 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 is simple by world standards, which makes it a good place to build confidence — and also means a low score here has nowhere to hide.
- Difficulty
- easy
- Population
- 29.2 m
- Code
- YEM
- Attempts
- 100
- Avg score
- 76
- Best
- 76
Draw Yemen
Practice · draw from memory
Yemen
A four-step strategy for Yemen
- 01
Start by fixing the overall footprint. Yemen 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.
Ch1cken_WingQuick facts
- Continent
- Asia
- Subregion
- Western Asia
- Outline pieces
- 1
- Detail score
- 1.76
Three things that go wrong when people sketch Yemen
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 north edge is a ruler line, not a coast
About 10% of the perimeter runs in one unbroken direction along the north. 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.
Both ends are pinched
The widest slice across the centre is 2.4× broader than either the northern or the southern edge. Place the two narrow ends early and the bulge between them cannot come out wrong.
Yemen is wider than it is tall
The finished outline holds a ratio of about 1.57 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.
Answer key: the real shape of Yemen
- Box on the canvas
- 440 × 280 units
- Width to height
- 1.57 : 1
- Separate landmasses
- 1
- Longest straight run
- 10% of the perimeter, along the north
- Coast against silhouette
- 1.17× the wrapping outline
Open it after you have drawn Yemen 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 Yemen is scored this way
Country Drawing does not compare your sketch to a picture of Yemen. 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 Yemen 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.
Yemen by the numbers
Yemen covers 527,968 km², which makes it the 48th largest of 190 countries in the game and the 11th largest in Asia. The capital is Sana'a at about 15°N, 48°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 Yemen: 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 Yemen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yementhis page | 527,968 km² | 29.2 m | Sana'a | 1 | — |
 Oman | 309,500 km² | 5.0 m | Muscat | 1 | 0.59× |
 Saudi Arabia | 2,149,690 km² | 34.3 m | Riyadh | 1 | 4.07× |
Draw these next
Countries near Yemen 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.
Yemen drawing questions
How big is Yemen?
Yemen covers 527,968 km², ranking 48th of 190 countries here by land area and 11th in Asia. About 25% of the area of Saudi Arabia.
What is the capital of Yemen?
The capital is Sana'a at about 15°N, 48°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 Yemen on a blank map.
Is Yemen hard to draw?
It is rated easy, and carries more outline detail than 15% of the 190 borders in this game. The shape has to be placed as 1 landmass, with about 10% of the perimeter running dead straight along the north.
Which countries border Yemen?
Yemen shares a land border with Oman and Saudi Arabia. The remaining perimeter is coast, which is the part that usually costs points.