Identify Every Flag in the World
Click the right country from a short list when a flag is displayed. All sovereign states across six continents. Free, browser-based, no account.
Play nowIt begins with a simple question on a quiz night in a Lisbon bar: which country has Chad's flag? Half the room says Romania. The other half says Chad. Both are right, because the two flags are identical except for one shade of blue. That accidental clash is one of dozens hiding among the world's roughly 197 sovereign flags. Indonesia and Monaco share a near-identical red and white bicolour. Slovakia, Slovenia and Russia overlap on a horizontal white-blue-red. Australia and New Zealand both fly the Southern Cross with a Union Jack canton. This quiz pulls flags from every continent and asks you to click the right country from a short, deliberately tempting list.
The 204 countries — World
Afghanistan Kabul
Albania Tirana
Algeria Algiers
Andorra Andorra la Vella
Angola Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda Saint John's
Argentina Buenos Aires
Armenia Yerevan
Australia Canberra
Austria Vienna
Azerbaijan Baku
Bahrain Manama
Bangladesh Dhaka
Barbados Bridgetown
Belarus Minsk
Belgium Brussels
Belize Belmopan
Benin Porto-Novo
Bhutan Thimphu
Bolivia Sucre
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
Botswana Gaborone
Brazil Brasília
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria Sofia
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
Burundi Gitega
Cambodia Phnom Penh
Cameroon Yaoundé
Canada Ottawa
Cape Verde Praia
Central African Republic Bangui
Chad N'Djamena
Chile Santiago
China Beijing- 🏴COI COI
Colombia Bogotá
Comoros Moroni
Costa Rica San José
Croatia Zagreb
Cuba Havana
Cyprus Nicosia
Czech Republic Prague
Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa
Denmark Copenhagen
Djibouti Djibouti
Dominica Roseau
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo
East Timor Dili
Ecuador Quito
Egypt Cairo
El Salvador San Salvador
Equatorial Guinea Malabo
Eritrea Asmara
Estonia Tallinn
Eswatini Mbabane
Ethiopia Addis Ababa
Falkland Islands Stanley
Federated States of Micronesia Palikir
Fiji Suva
Finland Helsinki
France Paris
Gabon Libreville
Georgia Tbilisi
Germany Berlin
Ghana Accra
Greece Athens
Grenada St. George's
Guatemala Guatemala City
Guinea Conakry
Guinea-Bissau Bissau
Guyana Georgetown
Haiti Port-au-Prince
Honduras Tegucigalpa
Hong Kong City of Victoria
Hungary Budapest
Iceland Reykjavik
India New Delhi
Indonesia Jakarta
Iran Tehran
Iraq Baghdad
Israel Jerusalem
Italy Rome
Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro
Jamaica Kingston
Japan Tokyo
Jordan Amman
Kazakhstan Astana
Kenya Nairobi
Kiribati South Tarawa
Kuwait Kuwait City
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek
Laos Vientiane
Latvia Riga
Lebanon Beirut
Lesotho Maseru
Liberia Monrovia
Libya Tripoli
Liechtenstein Vaduz
Lithuania Vilnius
Luxembourg Luxembourg
MAC MAC
Madagascar Antananarivo
Malawi Lilongwe
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
Maldives Malé
Mali Bamako
Malta Valletta
Marshall Islands Majuro
Mauritania Nouakchott
Mauritius Port Louis
Mexico Mexico City
Moldova Chișinău
Monaco Monaco
Mongolia Ulan Bator
Montenegro Podgorica
Morocco Rabat
Mozambique Maputo
Myanmar Naypyidaw
Namibia Windhoek
Nauru Yaren
Nepal Kathmandu
Netherlands Amsterdam
New Zealand Wellington
Nicaragua Managua
Niger Niamey
Nigeria Abuja
North Korea Pyongyang
North Macedonia Skopje- 🏴Northern Cyprus North Nicosia
Norway Oslo
Oman Muscat
Pakistan Islamabad
Palau Ngerulmud
Palestine Ramallah
Panama Panama City
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby
Paraguay Asunción
Peru Lima
Philippines Manila
Poland Warsaw
Portugal Lisbon
Qatar Doha
Republic of Ireland Dublin
Republic of Kosovo Pristina
Republic of the Congo Brazzaville
Romania Bucharest
Russia Moscow
Rwanda Kigali
Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre
Saint Lucia Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown
Samoa Apia
San Marino City of San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé
Saudi Arabia Riyadh
Senegal Dakar
Serbia Belgrade
Seychelles Victoria
Sierra Leone Freetown
Singapore Singapore
Slovakia Bratislava
Slovenia Ljubljana
Solomon Islands Honiara
Somalia Mogadishu- 🏴Somaliland Hargeisa
South Africa Pretoria
South Korea Seoul
South Sudan Juba
Spain Madrid
Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sudan Khartoum
Suriname Paramaribo
Sweden Stockholm
Switzerland Bern
Syria Damascus
Taiwan Taipei
Tajikistan Dushanbe
Tanzania Dodoma
Thailand Bangkok
The Bahamas Nassau
The Gambia Banjul
Togo Lomé
Tonga Nuku'alofa
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain
Tunisia Tunis
Turkey Ankara
Turkmenistan Ashgabat
Tuvalu Funafuti
Uganda Kampala
Ukraine Kyiv
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom London
United States Washington D.C.
Uruguay Montevideo
Uzbekistan Tashkent
Vanuatu Port Vila
Vatican City Vatican City
Venezuela Caracas
Vietnam Hanoi
Western Sahara El Aaiún
Yemen Sana'a
Zambia Lusaka
Zimbabwe Harare
Tips to play better
Learn the famous traps
Romania and Chad share a vertical blue-yellow-red. Indonesia and Monaco share red over white. Slovakia, Slovenia and Russia all have horizontal white-blue-red. Côte d'Ivoire and Ireland mirror each other. Master these five pairings and the world quiz gets noticeably easier.
Spot the unique flags first
Nepal is the only non-rectangular flag. Switzerland and the Vatican are the only square ones. The United Kingdom Union Jack is unmistakable. South Africa's Y-shape is one of a kind. When one of these appears, you can answer instantly and save your decision time for the trickier rounds.
Group by continent in your head
Pan-African red, gold and green covers Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Burkina Faso. Pan-Arab red, white, black and green covers Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, Sudan. Bolivarian yellow-blue-red covers Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador. Group flags by region first, then narrow down.
Read coats of arms
Many Latin American flags repeat similar bands and rely on the central emblem to be unique. Mexico's eagle on a cactus, Bolivia's mountain, Ecuador's condor, Peru's vicuña and Spain's two pillars are all distinctive enough to recognise without colour cues. Train the emblems alongside the bands.
Frequently asked questions
How many countries does this quiz cover?
The default world pool uses the 193 United Nations member states plus the Holy See and the State of Palestine as observer states, plus Taiwan and Kosovo as commonly recognised states. That is 197 flags. Disputed territories such as Western Sahara, Somaliland and Transnistria can be enabled as a separate optional pool.
Which national flag is the most copied?
The French tricolour of 1794 inspired more than thirty national flags including Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Romania, Mexico, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates in their structural use of stripes. Ethiopia's red-yellow-green inspired most of independent Africa. The Stars and Stripes inspired Liberia, Malaysia and Cuba in their stripe-and-canton structure.
Why do Chad and Romania really have the same flag?
Both adopted vertical blue-yellow-red bands inspired by the French model. Chad chose its colours at independence in 1960 from Pan-African red, yellow and Sahel blue. Romania reverted to its 1848 design in 1989 after the fall of Ceausescu. The two governments have negotiated several times and agreed to coexist with their respective shades of blue.
Are the Olympic and UN flags in the quiz?
No. The quiz only includes flags representing actual countries or recognised states. Supranational and organisational flags such as the Olympic rings, the United Nations, the European Union, the African Union or the Commonwealth are excluded by design. The same rule applies to international sport federation flags.
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