Featured: ChessFlag Quiz: Guess the Flag of Every Country
See a flag, pick the country from four answers. Play all 197 flags of the world on three levels, turn the quiz round and pick the flag instead, beat the clock in a 60 second speed run, or race friends on the same flags.
How to play Flag Quiz
Pick a mode
Classic shows you a flag and four country names. Reverse shows a country name and four flags. Speed run gives you 60 seconds, and the daily challenge is ten flags for everyone.
Set the level
Easy, Medium or Hard decides which flags you are asked about. You can also limit the quiz to one region, so a round can be Europe only or Africa only.
Choose an answer
Tap an answer or press 1, 2, 3 or 4 on a keyboard. The right answer turns green at once and a wrong pick turns red, so you always see the country you missed.
Beat your best
Your best score in each mode is kept on your device. The result screen shows your score, your accuracy and the flags you got wrong, with each country and its capital.
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A flags of the world quiz built for short rounds
This flag quiz covers 197 countries, which is every United Nations member state plus Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo and Taiwan. Each question is one flag and four answers, so a round of ten takes about a minute and a round of twenty is still a short break rather than a study session.
The quiz never only asks you to recognise a flag. It also tells you what you missed. When a round ends you get the list of flags you answered wrongly, each with the country name and its capital city, which is usually the moment a flag finally sticks in your memory.
Wrong answers are drawn from the same pool as the question, so they always make sense. On Hard the quiz goes further and prefers countries from the same part of the world, which is why you will see Chad next to Romania, or Senegal next to Mali, and why guessing by colour alone stops working.
Nothing is stored anywhere but your own browser. Your best score for each mode, your daily run of days and your name for online rooms live in local storage on your device, and clearing your browser data clears them.
Modes and settings
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Classic | A flag with four country names. Choose 10 or 20 questions. |
| Reverse | A country name with four flags. Choose 10 or 20 questions. |
| Speed run | Sixty seconds of flags, as many correct as you can. Solo only. |
| Race friends | 2 to 6 players in a private room. Everyone gets the same flags in the same order and the fastest correct answer wins the round. |
| Daily 10 | Ten flags chosen from the date, the same ten for every player, on Medium. |
| Easy | 52 widely known flags. |
| Medium | 128 flags, the Easy pool plus a second group. |
| Hard | All 197 flags, with wrong answers preferred from the same region. |
| Region | All, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas or Oceania. |
If a region has very few flags at your level, the quiz widens that level inside the region so there are always four different options.
The five ways to play
Classic: guess the flag
The core country flag quiz. One flag fills the screen, four country names sit below it, and you tap the one you believe is right. Ten questions suit a quick go and twenty make a proper test. Your score and your accuracy are both shown at the end, because eight out of ten on Hard is a very different result from eight out of ten on Easy.
Reverse: pick the flag
Here the country name comes first and four flags are shown as thumbnails. Reverse is harder than most people expect. Recognising a flag you have seen before is easy, but recalling which of four similar flags belongs to Slovakia or to Paraguay asks for real knowledge, so this mode is the quickest way to find the gaps.
Speed run: 60 seconds
One minute, flags one after another, no pause between questions. A correct answer moves on almost at once, a wrong one pauses just long enough to show you the right country. Speed run is solo, and it is the mode where Easy makes sense even for people who know their flags, because the limit is how fast you can read and tap.
Daily 10: the same flags for everyone
Ten flags a day, chosen from the date in UTC, so every player anywhere gets exactly the same ten. Finish the round to keep your run of days going, and copy the grid of green and red squares to share how you did without naming a single flag. A countdown on the home screen shows when the next ten arrive.
Race friends: fastest correct answer wins
Create a room and invite up to five friends with the code or the invite link. The host sets the level and the number of rounds, then everyone gets the same flags in the same order. Each round gives you 15 seconds and one answer, the first correct answer wins the round, and the player with the most round wins takes the race. If two players end level on round wins, total correct answers decides it.
The host runs the race. Your game sends only the number of the option you tapped, and the host decides who was correct and who was first, so nobody can win a round by changing their own game. The country is named for everyone at the same moment, once the round is over.
Tips for guessing the flag
Read the layout before the colours. Three vertical bands, three horizontal bands, a cross, a crescent, a star pattern or a badge in the middle. The layout cuts the 197 flags down to a handful long before colour does.
Learn the families. The Nordic countries all use an offset cross. Much of Central America uses blue and white bands. Several Arab states share red, white, black and green. Once you know a family, the question becomes which member it is, which is a far easier question.
Watch the small details. Chad and Romania differ only in the shade of blue. Indonesia and Monaco differ only in shape. Ireland and Ivory Coast are mirror images. Note the detail that separates each pair and you gain two flags at once.
Use the options. Four answers mean you rarely have to recall a flag from nothing. If three of the four are countries whose flags you know, the answer is the fourth one. This works best on Medium, where the options come from a wider pool.
Go region by region. Set the region filter to one continent and play short rounds until you stop missing flags there, then move on. Learning 46 European flags is a job you can finish, while learning 197 at once is not.
Finish the flags you keep missing. The result screen lists every flag you got wrong with its country and capital. Read it instead of tapping straight on to the next round, because that list is the only part of the quiz that teaches you anything new.
Why play a flag quiz
Flags are a shortcut into geography. A flag carries the history of a country, its neighbours and sometimes its religion or its rivers, and recognising one makes the news, sport and travel feel closer to home. A quiz is also a kind way to learn, because you commit to an answer and find out at once whether you were right, which is the loop that makes short practice work.
It travels well too. Children race through the Easy pool happily, a classroom can play the daily ten together in a couple of minutes, and a room of adults on Hard quickly turns competitive. No download, no account, no cost, just flags.
Flag Quiz FAQ
Is this flag quiz free to play online?
Yes. Flag Quiz on OnlineGames2Play is free and runs in your browser on any phone, tablet or computer. There is nothing to download and no sign up. Online rooms only ask for a nickname.
How many flags are in the quiz?
197 flags, which covers the 193 United Nations member states plus Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo and Taiwan. Easy uses the 52 most widely known flags, Medium adds a second group for 128 in total, and Hard uses all 197.
What is the difference between Easy, Medium and Hard?
The level sets the pool of flags you are asked about and the pool the wrong answers come from. Easy sticks to flags most people have seen, Medium widens it, and Hard uses every country and prefers wrong answers from the same part of the world, so the four options often look alike.
Can I quiz myself on one continent only?
Yes. The region filter covers Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania, and it applies to the questions and to the wrong answers. If a region has very few flags at your level, the quiz widens that level inside the region so you still get four different options.
What is the daily flag challenge?
Ten flags a day, the same ten for every player, chosen from the date in UTC. Your score and your run of days are saved on your device, and you can copy a grid of green and red squares that shows how you did without naming the flags.
How do I play the flag quiz with friends?
Choose Race friends, enter your name and create a room. Share the code or the invite link with up to five friends. The host picks the level and the number of rounds, and everybody gets the same flags in the same order.
Who wins a round in a flag quiz race?
The first player whose answer is correct wins the round. Everybody has 15 seconds and one answer per flag, the round ends as soon as everyone has answered, and the player with the most round wins takes the race. Correct answers break a tie.
Does a flag quiz actually help you learn?
It helps because you see the flag, commit to an answer and find out at once whether you were right, and the result screen names the country and its capital city. Short repeated rounds suit flags well, which is why the quiz works for classrooms and family quiz nights.