Five country flags a day — how many can you name?

Guess the country for each flag and see your score at the end. The five flags change daily, so it's a quick way to test yourself or challenge a friend to beat your score.

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Which country is this?

Why so many flags look alike

A lot of flags look alike because they genuinely borrowed from the same source: the French tricolor of 1789 became a template that dozens of newly independent nations copied afterward, which is why so many flags are just three vertical or horizontal stripes in different colors.

The classic mix-ups are famous for a reason — Chad and Romania are both a blue-yellow-red vertical tricolor with only a slightly different shade of blue between them, and Monaco's flag is functionally identical to Indonesia's, just a different width-to-height ratio. Color alone won't save you on those; look for the exact proportions or any small emblem instead.

Five flags a day means the same handful of tricky look-alikes come back into rotation regularly — a good way to actually learn to tell them apart rather than just memorizing one day's answers.

Common questions

Does the flag quiz change every day?

Yes — five new flags are selected each day from a growing question bank.

Can I retake the quiz?

Yes — you can replay today's set as many times as you like, though the flags won't change until tomorrow.

Why do some flags look so similar?

Plenty of national flags share the same basic layout on purpose — see the paragraph below for why that happens and which pairs get mixed up most.