World map practice index
Countries to draw
Start with a bold silhouette, then work toward borders that depend on proportion, neighbors, and small coastal turns. This index is generated from the same TopoJSON source used by the game.
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Match difficulty to what you want to learn
Easy outlines have one dominant gesture: Chile is long and narrow, Egypt is compact and angular, and Italy has its boot. Medium outlines add a change of direction or a proportion that is easy to distort. Hard outlines combine islands, irregular coastlines, or few obvious anchor points. Difficulty here describes drawing from memory at world-map scale, not the political or geographic importance of a place.
The current World practice pool contains a focused first edition rather than every shape in the source file. Use the full list below as a map reference and expansion index; choose one of the highlighted picks when you want a target that is already available in the game.
Recommended progression
Twelve outlines to practice first
Work from one clear gesture toward complex coastlines and islands.
- 01
Easy
Egypt
A compact quadrilateral with a memorable Mediterranean top edge.
- 02
Easy
Chile
The extreme north-to-south proportion is the main fact to preserve.
- 03
Easy
Portugal
A narrow vertical shape with one land border and one coast.
- 04
Easy
Italy
Use the boot gesture first; refine the coast only after the angle feels right.
- 05
Medium
Saudi Arabia
Strong angular edges make scale and placement easier to judge.
- 06
Medium
South Africa
A broad southern curve balanced by a straighter northern side.
- 07
Medium
India
Anchor the peninsula, then connect it to the wider northern section.
- 08
Medium
Japan
Practice several strokes while keeping the island chain on one diagonal.
- 09
Medium
Argentina
A long taper with a wider northeast and a narrow southern finish.
- 10
Hard
Norway
The long coast rewards simplification rather than tracing every fjord.
- 11
Hard
United Kingdom
Several lobes and islands test proportion at a small map scale.
- 12
Hard
Canada
Focus on the continental mass before attempting its complex northern islands.
Source-map index
All 177 named map areas
Grouped by the display name used in this reference.
A
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Antarctica
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
B
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
C
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czechia
D
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
E
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
F
- Falkland Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
G
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Greenland
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
H
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
I
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
J
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
K
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
L
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
M
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
N
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Cyprus
- Norway
O
- Oman
P
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
Q
- Qatar
R
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
S
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- Somaliland
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
T
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
U
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
V
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
W
- Western Sahara
Y
- Yemen
Z
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Why 177, not 195? The Natural Earth-derived map contains named territories, disputed areas, and Antarctica alongside sovereign states, while some very small places are absent at this map resolution. This page describes the actual game dataset instead of relabeling every feature as a country.
Turn the reference into recall
Pick a shape, hide the answer, and draw what remains in memory.
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