Flags of Asia 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 49 flags of Asia come in shuffled order, each once. Your score counts up to 49 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: Iraq’s flag is Yemen’s with green script added.

How to tell Asia’s look-alike flags apart

1. Iraq and Yemen: red, white and black horizontal bands; Iraq adds green Arabic script on the white band, Yemen has nothing on it.
2. China and Vietnam: yellow stars on red; China has one large and four small stars in the upper corner, Vietnam one large star in the centre.
3. Indonesia and Singapore: red over white; Singapore adds a white crescent and five stars.
4. Jordan and Palestine: black, white and green bands with a red triangle at the hoist; only Jordan’s triangle carries a white star.
5. Bahrain and Qatar: a white band with a zigzag edge at the hoist; Bahrain’s flag is red with five white points, Qatar’s maroon with nine and much longer.
6. Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates: green, white and black bands with red; the UAE has a red vertical bar at the hoist, Kuwait a black trapezoid.
7. Indonesia’s red-over-white flag is almost identical to Monaco’s, in the Europe set.
8. Egypt’s version of the red, white and black bands, with a golden eagle, is in the Africa set.

Flag proportions in Asia

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: Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Laos, Lebanon, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Vietnam and Yemen
2. 1:2: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Palestine, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan
3. 3:5: Bahrain, Bangladesh and Kyrgyzstan
4. 4:7: Iran and Oman
5. 11:28: Qatar
6. 16:25: Cambodia
7. 8:11: Israel
8. Taller than wide: Nepal (two stacked pennants)

Which countries count?

The quiz uses the 49 countries of Asia from the site’s 197-country list, the same list as the Countries of Asia map quiz. Türkiye, Cyprus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kazakhstan are counted in Asia, and Russia in Europe.

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.

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