Learn the families — Nordic crosses, the pan-Arab and pan-African colours, the Union Jack canton. Most flags belong to one, and it narrows four options to two.
Flag Quiz — a free guess-the-flag game with all 193 country flags
A flag appears. Pick the country it belongs to from four options. You have sixty seconds, each correct answer is a point, and each wrong one costs three seconds — so a confident guess is cheaper than a long deliberation.
Every one of the 193 UN member states is in here, but they don't all arrive at once. The first flags are the ones almost everyone knows; each point you score widens the pool toward the ones almost nobody does. Getting to twenty means you're being shown flags most people have never consciously looked at. Free, no download, and your best five runs are saved on your device.
How to play
- Look at the flag and tap the country it belongs to.
- On a keyboard, press 1, 2, 3 or 4.
- Correct is +1 point. Wrong costs 3 seconds of your minute.
- The run ends when the clock hits zero. Your score is the points you banked.
Flags come in families — learn those and you learn hundreds
Flags look like 193 things to memorise. They aren't. Most belong to a small number of families, and once you can name the family you've usually cut four options down to two.
Nordic crosses. Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland all carry an off-centre cross, its arm shorter on the hoist side. The Danish design is the oldest continuously used national flag in the world, and the rest are deliberate variations on it — so if you see that offset cross, you are somewhere in the Nordics and only the colours are left to sort out.
Pan-Arab colours — red, white, black and green — run through Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait, Sudan, Palestine and the UAE. The palette traces to the Arab Revolt of 1916, and the giveaway detail is usually the arrangement: three horizontal bands with a hoist-side triangle, or a plain tricolour with a star or eagle.
Pan-African colours — red, gold and green, borrowed from Ethiopia, the one African state never colonised — appear on Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Benin, Togo and more. Ethiopia's own flag is the reference point for all of them.
Union Jack cantons mark the former British world: Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tuvalu. Australia and New Zealand are the classic mix-up — both are blue with the Southern Cross, but New Zealand's stars are red with white outlines and there are four of them; Australia's are white and there are six, including the large Commonwealth Star under the canton.
The other pairs worth learning cold, because quizzes love them: Chad and Romania (nearly identical blue-yellow-red tricolours, Chad's blue is darker), Ireland and Ivory Coast (same three colours, reversed order), Monaco and Indonesia (red over white, differing only in proportion), and Netherlands and Luxembourg (Luxembourg's blue is lighter).
More games
The rest of the geography set: Capital Quiz for capital cities, Bigger Country for land area, Higher or Lower for populations and Odd One Out for continents. Or browse all games.