African Flags Quiz: Find Each Country on the Globe

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Take an African flags quiz on an interactive 3D globe. Identify each flag, then click its country in Africa. Free, with no signup.

Can you recognize an African flag and locate its country? GeoQuizz displays one flag at a time and you click the matching country directly on an interactive 3D globe. Pan-African colour combinations create the main challenge, while distinctive symbols such as Kenya’s shield, Mozambique’s rifle, and Lesotho’s mokorotlo provide useful clues.

The starter round uses 10 countries with a 150-second timer. The grid lists the full Africa flag selection of 54 countries and territories, available in the full game. Rotate and zoom the globe to find each target; a correct click does not automatically recenter the view.

The 54 countries and territories — Africa

This list shows the full selection for this mode and region. The short starter round uses a subset of this list.

  • Flag of Algeria

    Algeria

    Algiers

  • Flag of Angola

    Angola

    Luanda

  • Flag of Benin

    Benin

    Porto-Novo

  • Flag of Botswana

    Botswana

    Gaborone

  • Flag of Burkina Faso

    Burkina Faso

    Ouagadougou

  • Flag of Burundi

    Burundi

    Gitega

  • Flag of Cameroon

    Cameroon

    Yaoundé

  • Flag of Cape Verde

    Cape Verde

    Praia

  • Flag of Central African Republic

    Central African Republic

    Bangui

  • Flag of Chad

    Chad

    N'Djamena

  • Flag of Comoros

    Comoros

    Moroni

  • Flag of Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Kinshasa

  • Flag of Djibouti

    Djibouti

    Djibouti

  • Flag of Egypt

    Egypt

    Cairo

  • Flag of Equatorial Guinea

    Equatorial Guinea

    Ciudad de la Paz

  • Flag of Eritrea

    Eritrea

    Asmara

  • Flag of Eswatini

    Eswatini

    Mbabane

  • Flag of Ethiopia

    Ethiopia

    Addis Ababa

  • Flag of Gabon

    Gabon

    Libreville

  • Flag of Ghana

    Ghana

    Accra

  • Flag of Guinea

    Guinea

    Conakry

  • Flag of Guinea-Bissau

    Guinea-Bissau

    Bissau

  • Flag of Ivory Coast

    Ivory Coast

    Yamoussoukro

  • Flag of Kenya

    Kenya

    Nairobi

  • Flag of Lesotho

    Lesotho

    Maseru

  • Flag of Liberia

    Liberia

    Monrovia

  • Flag of Libya

    Libya

    Tripoli

  • Flag of Madagascar

    Madagascar

    Antananarivo

  • Flag of Malawi

    Malawi

    Lilongwe

  • Flag of Mali

    Mali

    Bamako

  • Flag of Mauritania

    Mauritania

    Nouakchott

  • Flag of Morocco

    Morocco

    Rabat

  • Flag of Mozambique

    Mozambique

    Maputo

  • Flag of Namibia

    Namibia

    Windhoek

  • Flag of Niger

    Niger

    Niamey

  • Flag of Nigeria

    Nigeria

    Abuja

  • Flag of Republic of the Congo

    Republic of the Congo

    Brazzaville

  • Flag of Rwanda

    Rwanda

    Kigali

  • Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe

    São Tomé and Príncipe

    São Tomé

  • Flag of Senegal

    Senegal

    Dakar

  • Flag of Seychelles

    Seychelles

    Victoria

  • Flag of Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone

    Freetown

  • Flag of Somalia

    Somalia

    Mogadishu

  • Flag of South Africa

    South Africa

    Pretoria

  • Flag of South Sudan

    South Sudan

    Juba

  • Flag of Sudan

    Sudan

    Khartoum

  • Flag of Tanzania

    Tanzania

    Dodoma

  • Flag of The Gambia

    The Gambia

    Banjul

  • Flag of Togo

    Togo

    Lomé

  • Flag of Tunisia

    Tunisia

    Tunis

  • Flag of Uganda

    Uganda

    Kampala

  • Flag of Western Sahara

    Western Sahara

    El Aaiún

  • Flag of Zambia

    Zambia

    Lusaka

  • Flag of Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwe

    Harare

Tips to play better

  • Use the regional pool for Chad

    Chad and Romania both use vertical blue, yellow and red bands. Romania is outside the Africa selection, so this pattern points to Chad in the regional quiz. In the world game, both can be targets, so the regional clue no longer separates them.

  • Côte d'Ivoire is not Ireland

    Ivory Coast reads orange, white, green from the hoist. Ireland reads green, white, orange. Same vertical bands, reversed. If you can lock the orange-first-on-the-left rule for Côte d'Ivoire, the trap disappears.

  • The green-yellow-red verticals

    Senegal, Mali and Guinea all share three vertical stripes in green, yellow and red. Senegal adds a green star in the centre, Guinea reverses the order to red-yellow-green from the hoist, and Mali keeps the field plain. Spot the star or the leading colour first.

  • Spot distinctive elements

    Kenya’s shield and crossed spears, Uganda’s crane, Mozambique’s rifle, Zimbabwe’s bird and Lesotho’s mokorotlo are useful visual clues. Identify the emblem, then locate its country on the globe.

Frequently asked questions

How many countries does the African flags quiz cover?

The full Africa flag selection contains 54 countries and territories, listed in the grid. The starter round uses 10 countries with a 150-second timer. The grid describes the full playable pool, not only the first round.

Do I name the flag or click a country?

Click or tap the country represented by the flag. This mode uses the globe rather than a typed answer. You do not need a microphone.

How can I distinguish similar colour combinations?

Compare stripe direction, colour order and added symbols. Senegal adds a star to green-yellow-red vertical stripes; Mali uses the same order without the star; Guinea starts with red. After identifying the flag, select its country on the globe.

Is Western Sahara represented?

Yes. Western Sahara is included in the full Africa flag pool. Somaliland is excluded from this mode because the current dataset lacks a usable flag mapping for it. The starter round uses a subset of the full selection.

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