Flags of South America 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 12 flags of South America come in shuffled order, each once. Your score counts up to 12 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: Ecuador’s flag is Colombia’s with a coat of arms added.

How to tell South America’s look-alike flags apart

1. Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela: yellow, blue and red horizontal bands; on Colombia’s and Ecuador’s the yellow fills the top half and Ecuador adds its coat of arms, while Venezuela’s three equal bands carry an arc of eight white stars.
2. Argentina and Uruguay: light blue and white with a golden sun; Argentina has three bands with the sun in the centre, Uruguay nine stripes with the sun in the top corner.
3. Bolivia’s red, yellow and green bands, shown without the coat of arms, match Ghana’s apart from Ghana’s black star.
4. Paraguay’s red, white and blue bands match the Netherlands’ apart from the emblem in the centre.

Flag proportions in South America

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: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela
2. 11:20: Paraguay
3. 3:5: Guyana
4. 5:8: Argentina
5. 15:22: Bolivia
6. 7:10: Brazil

Which countries count?

The quiz uses the 12 countries of South America from the site’s 197-country list, the same list as the Countries of South America map quiz. French Guiana and the Falkland Islands are not separate answers.

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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