A flag quiz for the whole world — or one continent at a time
This flag quiz shows you a national flag and asks which country it belongs to. It covers 197 flags: the 193 United Nations member states plus Kosovo, Palestine, Taiwan and Vatican City. Play with four answer buttons, or switch to Type the name and spell the country yourself — small typos such as “Columbia” or “Phillipines” are accepted, while a different country’s name (Niger for Nigeria, Austria for Australia) never is.
Narrow it down by region to learn one part of the world properly, race the clock in the 60-second sprint, or open Learn to browse every flag with its capital city. After each round you get a list of the flags you missed so you know exactly what to review.
The quiz runs in your browser. Flag images are drawn from the open-source flag-icons set and fetched on demand from a public CDN; your answers and best scores are kept only on this device.
How to use the Flag Quiz
- Choose a mode: Multiple choice for four options, Type the name for recall without hints, or Learn to browse the gallery.
- Pick a Region — the whole world, or one continent — and how many questions you want: 10, 20 or every flag in that region.
- Answer by tapping an option, pressing keys 1–4, or typing the name and pressing Enter. The flag card turns green or red and the capital city is shown with the answer.
- Press Next flag (or Enter) to continue. Tick 60-second sprint to answer as many flags as you can before the timer runs out; the game moves on automatically.
- At the end, review the flags you missed, then press Play again. Your best score for each mode, region and length is saved on this device.
Flag Quiz features
197 flags, six regions
Every UN member state plus four widely used extras, grouped as Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America with the Caribbean, South America, and Oceania.
Tricky distractors
When a flag has well-known look-alikes — Chad and Romania, Indonesia and Monaco, Ireland and Côte d’Ivoire, Australia and New Zealand — one of them is often among the wrong answers.
Forgiving typing
Typed answers ignore accents, capitals and “the”, accept common alternative names (Ivory Coast, Czech Republic, Burma, UK, USA) and allow one to three typos depending on the length of the name.
60-second sprint
A countdown mode that cycles through the whole region and advances automatically, so the score is how many flags you can identify in a minute. The clock pauses if you switch tabs.
Learn mode gallery
All flags with country names and capitals, searchable by either, loading lazily as you scroll so the page stays light.
Sound, keyboard and touch
Short tones for right and wrong answers (with a mute button), keys 1–4 and Enter for fast play, and large buttons for phones.
How to get better at flags quickly
Most people plateau because many flags share a handful of designs. Learning the differences between those families is faster than memorising flags one by one. Use the Learn gallery for a region, then play that region until the miss list is empty, and only then widen to the world.
- Horizontal tricolours: Indonesia (red over white) and Monaco are identical apart from proportions; Poland is the same colours flipped. Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia share white-blue-red, but only the last two carry a coat of arms.
- Vertical tricolours: Chad and Romania are near twins; Ireland (green-white-orange) and Côte d’Ivoire (orange-white-green) are mirror images; Italy swaps the orange for red.
- Nordic crosses: Denmark is red with white, Sweden blue with yellow, Norway red with a blue-and-white cross, Iceland blue with a red-and-white cross, Finland white with blue.
- Southern Cross flags: Australia has six white stars (including the large Commonwealth Star), New Zealand four red stars outlined in white.
- Pan-African and Pan-Arab colours: green-yellow-red (Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon) and red-white-black-green (Jordan, Palestine, Sudan, UAE, Kuwait) reward close attention to stars and triangles.
Which flags are included and how names are written
Country names follow common English usage, with official forms listed as alternatives: Czechia also answers to Czech Republic, Eswatini to Swaziland, Türkiye to Turkey, Myanmar to Burma, Timor-Leste to East Timor, and both Congos have separate names (Republic of the Congo, DR Congo). Capital cities are taken from the same reference table used by the country information lookup; where a country has more than one capital, all are listed.
Including a flag does not take a position on any dispute; the set simply matches the countries and territories most people expect to find in a flag quiz. Flag artwork comes from the flag-icons project (MIT licence) in its 4:3 version, so very wide or square flags such as Qatar, Switzerland and Nepal are shown inside a 4:3 frame.
More geography and quiz games
When you know the flags, test whether you can find the same countries on a map with the world map quiz. For a change of subject, the periodic table quiz works the same way for chemical elements, and the trivia quiz maker lets you write your own questions for a class or a party.
Flag Quiz FAQ
How many flags are in this flag quiz?
197: the 193 UN member states plus Kosovo, Palestine, Taiwan and Vatican City. Choose a region to quiz yourself on a smaller set, from 12 flags in South America to 54 in Africa.
Does spelling have to be perfect when I type?
No. Capitals, accents, punctuation and the word “the” are ignored, common alternative names are accepted, and one to three typing mistakes are allowed depending on the length of the name. A guess that exactly matches a different country, or is closer to a different country’s name, is marked wrong.
How does the 60-second sprint work?
The timer counts down from one minute while flags from your chosen region appear one after another; each answer moves on automatically. Your score is the number of flags you identified correctly before time ran out.
Why do some flags look slightly different from the real ones?
All flags are shown in a 4:3 frame for a tidy layout, so flags with other proportions — such as Qatar (11:28), Switzerland (square) or Nepal (non-rectangular) — appear with space around them. The designs and colours are otherwise faithful.
Are my scores saved?
Only your best score for each combination of mode, region and length is saved, in your browser’s local storage. Use Clear best scores to reset them. Nothing is sent to a server.