About Flag Quiz
Flag Quiz shows you one national flag and four country names, and you pick the one it belongs to. The three wrong answers are drawn from the same region as the right one, so you will be telling Mali from Guinea or Latvia from Austria rather than spotting an obvious outsider.
How to play
- A game is 10 rounds. Each round shows one flag and four country names.
- The flag is chosen at random from 195 countries: the 193 UN member states plus the Holy See and Palestine.
- The three wrong options always come from the same region as the correct country (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe or Oceania).
- A correct answer is worth 100 points, plus 20 for every correct answer in a row before it: 100, 120, 140 and so on.
- A wrong answer scores nothing and resets your streak to zero. The correct name is highlighted in green and your pick in red.
- After about a second the next round loads automatically. A perfect game of 10 in a row scores 1,900.
Controls
- Click or tap a country name to answer. There is no keyboard shortcut for the options.
- Your first click is final for that round; further clicks are ignored until the next flag appears.
- When the game ends, press Play again to start a new set of 10 flags.
Tips and strategy
- Protect the streak. Because each answer in a row is worth 20 more than the last, getting the early flags right matters more than any single later flag.
- Since all four options share a region, think about which neighbouring flags are easy to confuse: Mali, Guinea and Senegal in Africa; Colombia and Ecuador in the Americas; the Netherlands and Luxembourg in Europe.
- Learn the colour families. Many African flags use the Pan-African red, gold and green; many Arab flags use red, white, black and green; Nordic flags share an off-centre cross.
- Look at the details as well as the colours: the direction of stripes, the order of colours and any emblem or star often settles the choice.
- There is no clock, so take a moment on a hard flag instead of guessing quickly.
Background
The study of flags is called vexillology, from the Latin vexillum, a kind of banner. Flags on this page are drawn as emoji, which work in an unusual way: each country flag emoji is made of two regional indicator letters that spell the country's two-letter ISO 3166-1 code, and the device's font turns that pair into a picture. That is why the same flag can look slightly different on different phones and computers. Nepal's flag, made of two stacked pennants, is the only national flag that is not a rectangle.
Questions
- Is there a time limit?
- No. Rounds are not timed and speed does not affect the score. Only correct answers and your streak count.
- Where is my best score saved?
- Your best score is stored in your browser on this device. It is not linked to an account, so clearing site data or switching devices starts it from zero.
- Why does a flag look like two letters?
- Many Windows setups have no flag emoji font and would show the two-letter country code instead, so the games load their own colour emoji font to draw flags everywhere. If you still see letters, the font may have been blocked or not finished loading; reloading the page usually fixes it.