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Flags of the world
Every country’s flag in one calm gallery. Filter by continent, colour and symbol, open a flag to see the ones it is confused with, then test yourself in the flag quiz.
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How to use the flags page
- Browse and filterAll 195 flags with their names in your language. Combine a continent, colours, symbols and a search; the count changes as you go.
- Open a flagTap a flag for its card: capital, continent, colours, symbols and the flags it is easy to mix up with. Download the SVG, or print a sheet of a whole continent.
- Take the flag quizGuess the country from its flag or the flag from its country, for one continent or the whole world, or try the look-alike challenge. Wrong answers come back in a mistakes round.
What is behind the gallery
The page counts 195 countries: the 193 member states of the United Nations and the two observer states of its General Assembly, the Holy See (Vatican City) and the State of Palestine. Country names follow the Unicode CLDR in each language.
Colours and symbols come from measuring each flag picture: a colour is listed when it covers at least 2% of the flag, and every flag was then checked by hand. Shades are grouped into seven colours, so Chad’s dark blue and Romania’s lighter blue are both “blue”, and the small details of a coat of arms are left out. The symbols are the star, the crescent, the sun and the cross.
The pictures are the open-source flag-icons set (MIT licence), drawn at 4:3 so the grid stays even. Real proportions differ: the flags of Switzerland and the Vatican are square, Qatar’s is 11:28, and Nepal’s is not a rectangle at all.
“Looks like” lists the famous look-alikes first — Chad and Romania, Indonesia and Monaco, Ireland and Côte d’Ivoire, Australia and New Zealand, Norway and Iceland and more — then flags with the same colours and symbols. Layout is not part of the data, so that second part is a shortlist to compare by eye.
Questions about flags
How many flags are there in the world?
There is no single official number: it depends on which countries you count. This page shows 195 — the 193 UN member states plus the Vatican and Palestine, the two observer states. Territories such as Greenland or Puerto Rico have flags of their own but are not in this list.
Which flags look almost the same?
Chad and Romania are near-identical blue, yellow and red tricolours; Chad’s blue is darker. Indonesia and Monaco are both red over white and differ only in proportions (2:3 and 4:5). Ireland and Côte d’Ivoire are mirror images, and Norway and Iceland swap red and blue. The look-alike challenge in the quiz trains exactly these.
How do I find flags with only red, white and blue?
Tap red, white and blue under Colours and switch on “Only these colours”. Without the switch you see every flag that contains all three; with it, only the flags that use nothing else. A colour counts when it covers at least 2% of the flag, so a small coat of arms does not change the result.
How does the flag quiz work?
Choose a mode, a continent or the whole world, and 10, 20 or all questions. No flag repeats in a round. The four options come from look-alike flags where possible; typed answers ignore case and accents and accept common names such as “Ivory Coast”, “UK” or “Holland”. Your mistakes can be replayed at the end, and your best results stay in this browser only.
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- Red, white and blue flags: every country that uses them and how to tell them apartThe 22 national flags made only of red, white and blue, the ones that add a fourth colour, why the trio is so common and how to tell the look-alikes apart.
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