At least on the easy mode, you're given the names of major cities, coastlines, rivers, and major roads. The city names are also given a gloss in both English and the local script, if the local script is not in Latin.

For a country like China, whose neighboring countries do not use the same language, you can get a reasonably good guess as to its borders simply by drawing in the space between city names written in hanzi and nearby cities without those names.