About the project
About Draw A Country
Draw A Country is an independent browser game built around a simple learning loop: recall a geographic shape, compare it with a stable reference, and redraw it before the visual lesson fades.
What Draw A Country helps you practice
The game focuses on country and US state silhouettes. It trains proportion, direction, major border features, and the relative placement of separate land parts. It is a drawing and geography practice tool, not an assessment of intelligence or geographic expertise.
How the game is built and maintained
The site is a static web application. Drawing, scoring, draft recovery, best scores, and result-card generation run in your browser. Scoring rules and map-data versions are published so a result can be explained and reproduced.
The first public scoring method is documented on How the Country Drawing Score Works. Corrections are evaluated against the same fixed source and regression checks before they change the live reference.
Map data and disputed boundaries
Country geometry comes from Natural Earth public-domain map data pinned to a specific source revision. US state geometry uses the U.S. Census Bureau 2025 Cartographic Boundary File at 1:500,000, pinned by archive hash so multipart states retain meaningful separate land areas. The country set follows 193 United Nations member states plus Vatican City and Palestine for a 195-item practice catalogue. Flag images are self-hosted from flag-icons v7.5.0 under its MIT license.
Boundaries and names in a geography game can involve political disputes, projection choices, simplification, and source limitations. Their appearance here supports the drawing task and does not imply an official position. If a map unit creates a misleading practice outline, it is separated or corrected with an explicit data record.
About Ellis Rowan
Draw A Country is maintained under the pen name Ellis Rowan. The name is used for public project authorship and contact consistency. It does not represent a claimed academic qualification, cartographic license, company, editorial team, or independent professional review.
Corrections and update policy
Reports about a wrong shape, label, scoring behavior, accessibility barrier, or privacy statement should identify the page and affected country or state. Material scoring and data changes receive a version note. Editorial corrections may update the visible modified date where that context matters.