Flag Quiz: Name the Country
Name the country from its flag. All 195 countries are in, ten flags a round with four choices each, for the whole world or one continent, and the capital and land borders are shown after each answer.
10 questions from 195 countries, four choices each. A new mix every round.
How the flag quiz works
Every round draws ten flags at random from the countries you chose. The three wrong answers come from the same continent where possible, which is exactly where flags look most alike: the Nordic crosses, the pan-African green, gold and red, the Gulf states' red, white, green and black, Central America's blue-white-blue stripes.
After each answer you see the country's capital and its land borders, so a round teaches some geography along with the flags.
How to tell similar flags apart
Look at the direction of the stripes first, then the colour order, then the details. Chad and Romania are nearly identical vertical blue, yellow and red tricolours (Chad's blue is darker); Indonesia (red over white) and Monaco differ only in proportion; Poland is the same two colours upside down. Ireland and Ivory Coast use green, white and orange in opposite orders.
Emblems settle most of the rest: the maple leaf, the cedar of Lebanon, Cyprus's map of the island, Mexico's eagle on a cactus. If a flag has a coat of arms in the middle, the stripes behind it usually narrow the choice down to two or three countries.
Questions people ask
How many flags are in the quiz?
All 195 countries: the 193 UN member states plus Vatican City and Palestine.
Which flags are the hardest?
Near-identical pairs: Chad and Romania, Indonesia and Monaco, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Australia and New Zealand, and Senegal and Mali. Play a continent round to practise them side by side.
Where do the flag images come from?
The open-source flag-icons set (MIT licence), drawn as SVG so they stay sharp at any size.
Can I play only one continent?
Yes. Choose a continent before you start, or open a continent page (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania) to play its flags, shapes and borders.