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195 national flags, all of them in the table below. Press the button for one at random — you get the country, its region, the colours the flag actually uses, how the design is arranged, and what is unusual about it where something is.

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195 flags in this list.

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Country	Region	Colours	Design	Notable
Algeria	Africa	Green, white, red	Vertical bicolour with a red crescent and star	The crescent sits astride the seam between the two halves
Angola	Africa	Red, black, yellow	Horizontal bicolour with a central emblem	A machete, cog and star, consciously echoing the hammer and sickle
Benin	Africa	Green, yellow, red	Green vertical band beside two horizontal bands	Restored in 1990 after sixteen years of a different flag
Botswana	Africa	Blue, black, white	Light blue with a black band edged in white	Blue stands for rain, in a country that is mostly desert
Burkina Faso	Africa	Red, green, yellow	Horizontal bicolour with a central star	Adopted in 1984 with the country's new name
Burundi	Africa	Red, white, green	White saltire over four fields, with a central disc	Three red stars for the country's three main groups
Cabo Verde	Africa	Blue, white, red, yellow	Blue with narrow stripes and a ring of stars	Ten stars for the ten islands
Cameroon	Africa	Green, red, yellow	Vertical tricolour with a central star
Central African Republic	Africa	Blue, white, green, yellow, red	Four bands crossed by a vertical red band	The red band deliberately ties the French and pan-African colours together
Chad	Africa	Blue, yellow, red	Vertical tricolour	Almost indistinguishable from Romania's flag
Comoros	Africa	Yellow, white, red, blue, green	Four stripes with a green triangle at the hoist	Four stars and a crescent for the four islands
Republic of the Congo	Africa	Green, yellow, red	Diagonal bands running corner to corner
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Africa	Blue, yellow, red	Blue with a diagonal red stripe and a star
Cote d'Ivoire	Africa	Orange, white, green	Vertical tricolour	The mirror image of the flag of Ireland
Djibouti	Africa	Blue, green, white, red	Two bands with a white triangle and a red star
Egypt	Africa	Red, white, black	Horizontal tricolour with the Eagle of Saladin	The eagle appears on several Arab republics' flags
Equatorial Guinea	Africa	Green, white, red, blue	Tricolour with a blue triangle and arms	A silk-cotton tree stands at the centre
Eritrea	Africa	Green, blue, red	A red triangle across two fields, with an emblem	An olive wreath carried over from the independence movement
Eswatini	Africa	Blue, yellow, red	Horizontal bands with a shield and two spears	An Nguni shield lies sideways across the centre
Ethiopia	Africa	Green, yellow, red	Horizontal tricolour with a blue disc and star	The original source of the pan-African colours
Gabon	Africa	Green, yellow, blue	Horizontal tricolour
Gambia	Africa	Red, blue, green, white	Horizontal tricolour with thin white lines	The blue band is the river the country is built around
Ghana	Africa	Red, yellow, green	Horizontal tricolour with a black star	The black star named the national football team
Guinea	Africa	Red, yellow, green	Vertical tricolour
Guinea-Bissau	Africa	Red, yellow, green	A red hoist band with a black star, beside two bands
Kenya	Africa	Black, red, green, white	Horizontal tricolour with a Maasai shield and spears
Lesotho	Africa	Blue, white, green	Horizontal tricolour with a black hat	The mokorotlo, a Basotho straw hat
Liberia	Africa	Red, white, blue	Eleven stripes with one white star in a blue canton	Modelled directly on the flag of the United States
Libya	Africa	Red, black, green	Horizontal tricolour with a crescent and star	Restored in 2011; the previous flag was a plain green field
Madagascar	Africa	White, red, green	A white vertical band beside two horizontal bands
Malawi	Africa	Black, red, green	Horizontal tricolour with a rising sun
Mali	Africa	Green, yellow, red	Vertical tricolour
Mauritania	Africa	Green, yellow, red	Green with a crescent and star, between red bands	The red bands were added in 2017
Mauritius	Africa	Red, blue, yellow, green	Four equal horizontal bands	One of very few flags with four equal stripes
Morocco	Africa	Red, green	Red with a green interlaced star	The pentagram is drawn as one unbroken line
Mozambique	Africa	Green, black, yellow, red, white	Bands with a red triangle and an emblem	The only national flag showing a modern rifle
Namibia	Africa	Blue, red, green, white, yellow	A diagonal red band with a golden sun
Niger	Africa	Orange, white, green	Horizontal tricolour with an orange disc
Nigeria	Africa	Green, white	Vertical triband	Designed by a student in a 1959 competition
Rwanda	Africa	Blue, yellow, green	Horizontal bands with a golden sun	Replaced in 2001 to break with the old flag entirely
Sao Tome and Principe	Africa	Green, yellow, red, black	Horizontal tricolour with a red triangle and two stars
Senegal	Africa	Green, yellow, red	Vertical tricolour with a green star
Seychelles	Africa	Blue, yellow, red, white, green	Five rays spreading from the lower hoist
Sierra Leone	Africa	Green, white, blue	Horizontal tricolour
Somalia	Africa	Blue, white	Light blue with a single white star	The blue was taken from the United Nations flag
South Africa	Africa	Black, gold, green, white, red, blue	A horizontal Y joining two colour schemes	Six colours, more than any other national flag
South Sudan	Africa	Black, red, green, white, blue, yellow	Three bands with a blue triangle and a gold star	The newest national flag, from 2011
Sudan	Africa	Red, white, black, green	Horizontal tricolour with a green triangle
Tanzania	Africa	Green, blue, black, yellow	A diagonal black band edged in yellow	Combines the flags of Tanganyika and Zanzibar
Togo	Africa	Green, yellow, red, white	Five stripes with a red canton and a white star
Tunisia	Africa	Red, white	Red with a white disc bearing a crescent and star	One of the oldest designs still flown, dating from 1831
Uganda	Africa	Black, yellow, red, white	Six stripes with a grey crowned crane
Zambia	Africa	Green, red, black, orange	Green with stripes and an eagle at the fly	The emblem sits off-centre at the fly, which is rare
Zimbabwe	Africa	Green, yellow, red, black, white	Seven stripes with a white triangle, bird and star	The Zimbabwe Bird, from soapstone carvings at Great Zimbabwe
Antigua and Barbuda	Americas	Red, black, blue, white, yellow	A red field with a black triangle and a rising sun
Argentina	Americas	Light blue, white	Horizontal triband with a golden sun	The Sun of May, a face inside a sun
Bahamas	Americas	Aquamarine, gold, black	Horizontal triband with a black triangle
Barbados	Americas	Blue, gold	Vertical triband with a broken trident	The trident shaft is broken, marking the break with Britain
Belize	Americas	Blue, red, white	Blue with red edges and a large central arms	The only national flag whose main design shows human figures
Bolivia	Americas	Red, yellow, green	Horizontal tricolour with the state arms	The wiphala, a square rainbow flag, is also official
Brazil	Americas	Green, yellow, blue, white	A yellow diamond on green, with a starry globe	The stars show the sky over Rio on 15 November 1889
Canada	Americas	Red, white	Vertical triband with a maple leaf	Adopted only in 1965, after a long parliamentary fight
Chile	Americas	Red, white, blue	Two bands with a blue canton and a white star
Colombia	Americas	Yellow, blue, red	Horizontal tricolour, the yellow band double width
Costa Rica	Americas	Blue, white, red	Five horizontal bands	The civil flag has no arms; the state flag does
Cuba	Americas	Blue, white, red	Five stripes with a red triangle and a white star	Liberia's and Puerto Rico's flags share its structure
Dominica	Americas	Green, yellow, black, white, red	A cross of three colours with a central parrot	The sisserou parrot, found nowhere else
Dominican Republic	Americas	Blue, red, white	A white cross dividing four fields, with arms	The only national flag with a Bible on it
Ecuador	Americas	Yellow, blue, red	Horizontal tricolour with arms, yellow double width
El Salvador	Americas	Blue, white	Horizontal triband with the national arms
Grenada	Americas	Red, yellow, green	A red border with stars, and a nutmeg	A nutmeg pod, the island's main export
Guatemala	Americas	Blue, white	Vertical triband with arms	A quetzal and a scroll dated 1821
Guyana	Americas	Green, yellow, red, white, black	Green with two arrowhead triangles	Known as the Golden Arrowhead
Haiti	Americas	Blue, red	Horizontal bicolour with central arms	The arms show a palm and cannon on a white panel
Honduras	Americas	Blue, white	Horizontal triband with five stars	The five stars are the five states of the old federation
Jamaica	Americas	Green, gold, black	A gold saltire dividing four fields	The only national flag with neither red, white nor blue
Mexico	Americas	Green, white, red	Vertical tricolour with the national arms	An eagle on a cactus eating a snake, from an Aztec founding legend
Nicaragua	Americas	Blue, white	Horizontal triband with arms	A rainbow and a triangle at the centre
Panama	Americas	Red, white, blue	Four quarters with two stars
Paraguay	Americas	Red, white, blue	Horizontal tricolour with an emblem	Different emblems on the front and the back, uniquely
Peru	Americas	Red, white	Vertical triband, with arms on the state flag
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Americas	Green, yellow, red, black, white	A diagonal black band with two white stars
Saint Lucia	Americas	Blue, gold, black, white	Blue with a black and gold arrowhead
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Americas	Blue, gold, green	Vertical triband with three green diamonds	The diamonds are arranged in a V
Suriname	Americas	Green, white, red, yellow	Five bands with a yellow star
Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	Red, black, white	A black diagonal band edged in white
United States	Americas	Red, white, blue	Thirteen stripes with fifty stars in a blue canton	Stars for the states, stripes for the original colonies
Uruguay	Americas	Blue, white	Nine stripes with a sun in a white canton	The Sun of May again, shared with Argentina
Venezuela	Americas	Yellow, blue, red	Horizontal tricolour with an arc of eight stars
Afghanistan	Asia	White, black	White with the shahada in black script	The current administration's flag; the former republic's black, red and green tricolour is still flown by some missions abroad
Armenia	Asia	Red, blue, orange	Horizontal tricolour
Azerbaijan	Asia	Blue, red, green	Horizontal tricolour with a crescent and star
Bahrain	Asia	Red, white	Red and white divided by a five-pointed zigzag	The five points stand for the five pillars of Islam
Bangladesh	Asia	Green, red	Green with a red disc set slightly toward the hoist	Offset so it looks centred when the flag is flying
Bhutan	Asia	Yellow, orange, white	A diagonal division with a white dragon	The dragon holds jewels in its claws
Brunei	Asia	Yellow, white, black, red	Yellow with diagonal stripes and a central emblem
Cambodia	Asia	Blue, red, white	Horizontal triband with a white temple	The only national flag showing a building: Angkor Wat
China	Asia	Red, yellow	Red with one large and four small stars
Cyprus	Asia	White, copper, green	White with a copper map of the island and olive branches	One of only two national flags showing the country's own map
Georgia	Asia	White, red	A red cross with four smaller crosses
India	Asia	Saffron, white, green, navy	Horizontal tricolour with a navy wheel	The Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel from a third-century BC pillar
Indonesia	Asia	Red, white	Horizontal bicolour	Identical to Monaco's flag but for its proportions
Iran	Asia	Green, white, red	Horizontal tricolour with a central emblem	The words "God is great" repeated 22 times along the bands
Iraq	Asia	Red, white, black	Horizontal tricolour with green script
Israel	Asia	Blue, white	Two blue bands with a blue Star of David	Based on the design of a prayer shawl
Japan	Asia	White, red	White with a centred red disc
Jordan	Asia	Black, white, green, red	Three bands with a red triangle and a white star	The star has seven points, for the opening verses of the Quran
Kazakhstan	Asia	Light blue, gold	Blue with a sun, an eagle and a hoist pattern
Kuwait	Asia	Green, white, red, black	Three bands with a black trapezoid at the hoist
Kyrgyzstan	Asia	Red, yellow	Red with a sun and a stylised yurt roof	The centre shows the roof of a yurt seen from inside
Laos	Asia	Red, blue, white	Horizontal triband with a white disc
Lebanon	Asia	Red, white, green	Horizontal triband with a cedar tree
Malaysia	Asia	Red, white, blue, yellow	Fourteen stripes with a crescent and star in a canton
Maldives	Asia	Red, green, white	Red with a green rectangle and a white crescent
Mongolia	Asia	Red, blue, gold	Vertical triband with the soyombo symbol	The soyombo is a column of ideographs read from the top down
Myanmar	Asia	Yellow, green, red, white	Horizontal tricolour with a large white star
Nepal	Asia	Crimson, blue, white	Two stacked pennants	The only national flag that is not a rectangle
North Korea	Asia	Blue, red, white	Horizontal bands with a red star in a white disc
Oman	Asia	Red, white, green	A red hoist band with three horizontal bands	The emblem is a khanjar dagger crossed with two swords
Pakistan	Asia	Green, white	Green with a white hoist band, crescent and star	The white band stands for the country's religious minorities
Palestine	Asia	Black, white, green, red	Three bands with a red triangle at the hoist
Philippines	Asia	Blue, red, white	Two bands with a white triangle, sun and stars	Flown upside down, with red uppermost, it declares a state of war
Qatar	Asia	Maroon, white	Maroon and white divided by a nine-point zigzag	The maroon began as red dye faded by the sun
Saudi Arabia	Asia	Green, white	Green with the shahada and a sword	Never flown at half mast, because of the text it carries
Singapore	Asia	Red, white	Horizontal bicolour with a crescent and five stars
South Korea	Asia	White, red, blue, black	White with a red and blue disc and four trigrams	The taegeuk and four of the eight trigrams of the I Ching
Sri Lanka	Asia	Gold, maroon, green, orange	A lion holding a sword, beside two vertical bands
Syria	Asia	Green, white, black, red	Horizontal tricolour with three red stars	Adopted in 2025 in place of the previous red, white and black tricolour
Tajikistan	Asia	Red, white, green	Horizontal tricolour with a crown and stars
Thailand	Asia	Red, white, blue	Five horizontal bands
Timor-Leste	Asia	Red, yellow, black, white	Two triangles at the hoist with a white star
Turkey	Asia	Red, white	Red with a white crescent and star
Turkmenistan	Asia	Green, white, red	Green with a crescent, stars and a carpet stripe	The carpet stripe carries five traditional rug patterns
United Arab Emirates	Asia	Red, green, white, black	A red hoist band with three horizontal bands
Uzbekistan	Asia	Blue, white, green, red	Horizontal tricolour with a crescent and twelve stars
Vietnam	Asia	Red, yellow	Red with a large yellow star
Yemen	Asia	Red, white, black	Horizontal tricolour
Albania	Europe	Red, black	Red with a black double-headed eagle
Andorra	Europe	Blue, yellow, red	Vertical tricolour with arms
Austria	Europe	Red, white	Horizontal triband	Among the oldest designs in continuous use
Belarus	Europe	Red, green, white	Two bands with a red ornamental hoist pattern	The hoist pattern comes from a 1917 embroidered towel
Belgium	Europe	Black, yellow, red	Vertical tricolour
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	Blue, yellow, white	Blue with a yellow triangle and a line of stars	The stars are cut off at top and bottom, implying they continue
Bulgaria	Europe	White, green, red	Horizontal tricolour
Croatia	Europe	Red, white, blue	Horizontal tricolour with a chequered shield	The red and white chequerboard has 25 squares
Czechia	Europe	White, red, blue	Two bands with a blue triangle at the hoist
Denmark	Europe	Red, white	A white Nordic cross on red	The oldest national flag still in use
Estonia	Europe	Blue, black, white	Horizontal tricolour
Finland	Europe	White, blue	A blue Nordic cross on white
France	Europe	Blue, white, red	Vertical tricolour	The design most copied by other countries
Germany	Europe	Black, red, gold	Horizontal tricolour
Greece	Europe	Blue, white	Nine stripes with a cross in the canton	Nine stripes for the nine syllables of a revolutionary phrase
Hungary	Europe	Red, white, green	Horizontal tricolour
Iceland	Europe	Blue, white, red	A red Nordic cross edged in white, on blue
Ireland	Europe	Green, white, orange	Vertical tricolour	The orange stands for Irish Protestants, the white for peace between
Italy	Europe	Green, white, red	Vertical tricolour
Latvia	Europe	Carmine, white	Two dark red bands with a narrow white band
Liechtenstein	Europe	Blue, red, gold	Horizontal bicolour with a gold crown	The crown was added in 1937 to tell it apart from Haiti's flag
Lithuania	Europe	Yellow, green, red	Horizontal tricolour
Luxembourg	Europe	Red, white, blue	Horizontal tricolour	Almost identical to the Dutch flag, with a lighter blue
Malta	Europe	White, red	Vertical bicolour with the George Cross
Moldova	Europe	Blue, yellow, red	Vertical tricolour with arms
Monaco	Europe	Red, white	Horizontal bicolour	The same design as Indonesia's flag, in different proportions
Montenegro	Europe	Red, gold	Red with a gold border and a double-headed eagle
Netherlands	Europe	Red, white, blue	Horizontal tricolour	The oldest tricolour, and the model for many others
North Macedonia	Europe	Red, yellow	A yellow sun with eight rays on red
Norway	Europe	Red, white, blue	A blue Nordic cross edged in white, on red
Poland	Europe	White, red	Horizontal bicolour
Portugal	Europe	Green, red, yellow	Vertical bicolour with an armillary sphere and shield	The armillary sphere recalls the age of navigation
Romania	Europe	Blue, yellow, red	Vertical tricolour	All but identical to Chad's flag
Russia	Europe	White, blue, red	Horizontal tricolour	The source of the pan-Slavic colours
San Marino	Europe	White, light blue	Horizontal bicolour with arms
Serbia	Europe	Red, blue, white	Horizontal tricolour with arms
Slovakia	Europe	White, blue, red	Horizontal tricolour with arms
Slovenia	Europe	White, blue, red	Horizontal tricolour with arms	The arms show Mount Triglav
Spain	Europe	Red, yellow	Horizontal triband with arms, the yellow double width
Sweden	Europe	Blue, yellow	A yellow Nordic cross on blue
Switzerland	Europe	Red, white	A white cross on a square red field	One of only two square national flags
Ukraine	Europe	Blue, yellow	Horizontal bicolour	Blue sky above a field of wheat
United Kingdom	Europe	Red, white, blue	Three crosses superimposed	Not symmetrical: the diagonals are offset, so it can be flown upside down
Vatican City	Europe	Yellow, white	Square vertical bicolour with the papal arms	The other square national flag, alongside Switzerland's
Australia	Oceania	Blue, white, red	Blue with a Union Flag canton, stars and the Southern Cross	The large Commonwealth Star has seven points
Fiji	Oceania	Light blue, white, red	Light blue with a Union Flag canton and a shield
Kiribati	Oceania	Red, blue, white, yellow	A frigatebird over a rising sun and waves
Marshall Islands	Oceania	Blue, orange, white	Blue with two diagonal bands and a star	The star has 24 points, four of them longer
Micronesia	Oceania	Light blue, white	Light blue with four white stars
Nauru	Oceania	Blue, yellow, white	Blue with a horizontal gold band and a star	The star's position marks the island's latitude below the equator
New Zealand	Oceania	Blue, white, red	Blue with a Union Flag canton and four red stars	A 2016 referendum voted to keep it
Palau	Oceania	Light blue, yellow	Light blue with an off-centre yellow disc	The disc is the moon, not the sun, and is set toward the hoist
Papua New Guinea	Oceania	Red, black, yellow, white	A diagonal split with a bird of paradise and stars	Designed by a schoolgirl in a 1971 competition
Samoa	Oceania	Red, blue, white	Red with a blue canton and the Southern Cross
Solomon Islands	Oceania	Blue, yellow, green, white	A diagonal yellow band with five stars
Tonga	Oceania	Red, white	Red with a white canton bearing a red cross
Tuvalu	Oceania	Light blue, white, red, yellow	Light blue with a Union Flag canton and nine stars	The stars are laid out as a map of the islands
Vanuatu	Oceania	Red, green, black, yellow	A horizontal Y with a boar's tusk emblem	A curled boar's tusk enclosing two namele leaves

Colours are listed as they are commonly named, not as exact shades — official specifications use Pantone or CMYK values that differ between government documents, and the drawings here use representative shades. Every drawing is set at 3:2; real flags use several different ratios, and the two square flags, Switzerland and Vatican City, are noted in their rows. Designs are described in words for every flag, drawn or not.

How this list was built

The list is the 193 UN member states plus Palestine and Vatican City. That is the line most reference works draw, and drawing it explicitly is better than leaving people to wonder why a particular territory is missing. Dependencies, disputed territories and sub-national flags are not here.

Drawn where they can be drawn exactly, described where they cannot. 102 of the 195 flags here are drawn on this page as SVG, by us, from their geometry — bands, crosses, saltires, triangles, cantons, discs, serrated edges and regular stars. None is a photograph or a stock graphic. The other 93 carry a coat of arms, script, an animal, a plant, a tool, a sun with a face or a crescent, and none of those can be reproduced from geometry. An approximated flag is a wrong flag, so those keep their written description instead of a drawing that is nearly right. Where we were not confident of a shape — Bosnia and Herzegovina, Saint Lucia, Seychelles — we left it undrawn rather than guess.

Flags change, and this list says so where it matters. Syria's flag changed in 2025. Afghanistan's is contested between the current administration and missions abroad still flying the former republic's tricolour. Mauritania added red bands in 2017. A flag list that pretends the set is fixed is quietly wrong; the entries here carry the date or the dispute.

The near-identical pairs are flagged both ways. Chad and Romania, Indonesia and Monaco, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Ireland and Cote d'Ivoire. These are the questions people actually arrive with, and each entry points at its twin instead of leaving you to notice.

Sources. Country list follows UN membership plus the two permanent observer states. Designs, colours and the historical notes follow standard vexillological reference. Where a flag has changed recently or is contested, the entry says so rather than presenting one version as settled.

Common questions

How many national flags are there?

195 on this list — the 193 UN member states plus Palestine and Vatican City. Counts elsewhere differ because they include dependencies, disputed territories or partly recognised states.

Which national flag is not a rectangle?

Nepal's, which is two stacked pennants. Switzerland's and Vatican City's are square rather than the usual rectangle, but they are still four-sided.

Which flags look almost the same?

Chad and Romania are the closest pair. Indonesia and Monaco differ only in proportions. The Netherlands and Luxembourg differ in the shade of blue, and Ireland and Cote d'Ivoire are mirror images of each other.

Why are only some of the flags drawn?

Because the rest cannot be drawn accurately from geometry. A flag made of bands, crosses, triangles, discs and stars can be reproduced exactly. A flag carrying a coat of arms, a line of script, an eagle, a cedar or a sun with a face cannot — any version we drew would be a near-miss, and a near-miss flag is simply the wrong flag. Those rows carry the written description instead, which is accurate.

Can I use this for a quiz or a geography lesson?

Yes. Turn on no-repeats and the generator works through all 195 without repeating, which is what you want for a class going round the room.

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