Flags of Europe 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 45 flags of Europe come in shuffled order, each once. Your score counts up to 45 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: Andorra’s and Moldova’s flags are Romania’s with a coat of arms added.

How to tell Europe’s look-alike flags apart

1. Andorra, Moldova and Romania: blue, yellow and red vertical bands; Andorra and Moldova add a coat of arms in the centre, Romania has none.
2. Luxembourg and the Netherlands: red, white and blue horizontal bands; Luxembourg’s blue is lighter and its flag longer.
3. Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia: white, blue and red horizontal bands; Slovakia adds a large shield with a double cross, Slovenia a smaller shield near the hoist, Russia nothing.
4. Ireland and Italy: green and white vertical bands with a third band that is orange for Ireland and red for Italy.
5. Iceland and Norway: the same Nordic cross with the colours swapped, a white-edged blue cross on red for Norway and a white-edged red cross on blue for Iceland.
6. Austria and Latvia: red, white and red horizontal bands; Latvia’s red is darker and its white band narrower.
7. Monaco and Poland: Monaco’s flag is red over white, Poland’s white over red.
8. Belgium and Germany: black, yellow and red, in vertical bands for Belgium and horizontal black, red and gold bands for Germany.
9. Romania’s flag is almost identical to Chad’s, in the Africa set, and Monaco’s to Indonesia’s, in the Asia set.

Flag proportions in Europe

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: Austria, Czechia, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine
2. 1:2: Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Slovenia
3. 3:5: Bulgaria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg and United Kingdom
4. 5:8: Poland and Sweden
5. 5:7: Albania and Kosovo
6. 1:1: Switzerland and Vatican City
7. 11:18: Finland
8. 7:11: Estonia
9. 7:10: Andorra
10. 18:25: Iceland
11. 8:11: Norway
12. 3:4: San Marino
13. 28:37: Denmark
14. 4:5: Monaco
15. 13:15: Belgium

Which countries count?

The quiz uses the 45 countries of Europe from the site’s 197-country list, the same list as the Countries of Europe map quiz. Russia and Kosovo are included; Türkiye, Cyprus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are counted in Asia.

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
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