Can you name every country of Africa from its flag? A free flags quiz with four answers to choose from for each flag.
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Every country has a flag, and many of them tell a story. The red and white of Poland’s flag come from its medieval coat of arms, the maple leaf has been on Canada’s flag since 1965, and Nepal’s two stacked pennants make it the only national flag that is not a rectangle. Some flags are almost twins: Chad and Romania use nearly the same blue, yellow and red stripes, and the flags of Indonesia and Monaco differ only in their shape.
Each question shows one flag and four countries to choose from. The wrong answers come from the same part of the world, so look closely at the colours, stripes and emblems. At the end you see your score and every flag you missed, so you can learn them for next time.
Africa has 54 countries, more than any other continent. Many of their flags use green, yellow and red, the colours of Ethiopia, which was never a colony, or red, black and green, the colours of the Pan-African flag of 1920. Mozambique’s flag is the only one in the world with a modern rifle on it.
Flag images: flag-icons by Panayiotis Lipiridis (MIT licence).
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