Flags of Africa Quiz

How to play

1. A flag fills the board. Type the name of its country in the box below. Capital letters, accents and punctuation do not matter, and common alternative names such as “Ivory Coast” or “UK” are accepted.
2. A correct answer is accepted by itself after a short pause and the next round begins. Press Enter to check any other answer.
3. A wrong guess is marked so you can try again, as often as you like. There is no timer.
4. Stuck? Press Finish to end the run: the answer is revealed and that flag counts as missed.
5. The 54 flags of Africa come in shuffled order, each once. Your score counts up to 54 at the top of the board, and naming the last one completes the run. The answer review below the board lists every round.
6. Your result is saved in this browser. Once enough people have played a game, the results also show how your score ranks, and you can copy or share an image of your result, or replay.

Tips for playing

Read each flag in three passes: the layout (bands, a cross, a triangle), the order of the colours from the flagpole or from the top, then any emblem. Often the emblem is the only difference: Senegal’s flag is Mali’s with a green star added.

How to tell Africa’s look-alike flags apart

1. Mali and Senegal: the same green, yellow and red vertical bands; Senegal adds a green star in the centre.
2. Guinea and Mali: the same three colours in reverse order, red–yellow–green for Guinea and green–yellow–red for Mali, reading from the flagpole.
3. Cameroon and Senegal: each has a star on a green, red or yellow tricolour; Cameroon’s yellow star sits on a red centre band, Senegal’s green star on a yellow one.
4. Kenya and Malawi: black, red and green horizontal bands; Kenya adds a shield and spears with white edging, Malawi a red rising sun on the black band.
5. Burkina Faso and Ghana: red and green with a star in the middle; Burkina Faso has two bands and a yellow star, Ghana a yellow middle band and a black star.
6. Chad’s blue, yellow and red tricolour is almost identical to Romania’s, which is in the Europe set.

Flag proportions in Africa

Proportions are height to width, as flag specifications give them. The game shows every flag at its own proportions, so a flag’s outline is itself a clue.

1. 2:3: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia
2. 1:2: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, South Sudan, Sudan and Zimbabwe
3. 3:5: Burundi and Comoros
4. 3:4: Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon
5. 10:19: Liberia
6. 10:17: Cape Verde
7. about 1:1.62: Togo
8. 6:7: Niger

Which countries count?

The quiz uses the 54 countries of Africa from the site’s 197-country list, the same list as the Countries of Africa map quiz. Western Sahara is not a separate answer.

Sources

Source: Wikimedia Commons · Retrieved September 2026

Bundled SVG flags in each flag’s official proportions: the current national flag Wikidata lists for each country, drawn from Wikimedia Commons. All are public domain except the flag of Oman, used under the Open Government Licence – Oman 1.0. Country names and accepted aliases follow the same 197-entry list as our world map quiz. This is a versioned collection, not a daily update.

• Wikimedia Commons
• Flag sources and licenses