The Flags of the Americas Quiz is a free, interactive way to learn and test yourself on all 35 flags of the Americas. See a flag and name the country, or read a country name and pick its flag from four options. It runs entirely in your browser, works on phones as well as desktops, and needs no sign-up.

It is built to actually teach you. In multiple-choice rounds the wrong answers are drawn from the same part of the Americas as the correct flag, so the blue-and-white Central American tribands compete against each other and the small Caribbean island flags compete against each other, rather than against Brazil. That makes the choices genuinely confusable and the learning stick. Typed answers are forgiving too: they ignore case and accents and accept common alternatives, so USA and America both work for the United States, Columbia is accepted for Colombia, and St Kitts works for Saint Kitts and Nevis.

There is also a Daily Challenge: ten flags that are the same for everyone in the world each day, with a shareable emoji-grid result and a streak counter to keep you coming back. Play the daily in under a minute, then keep going with unlimited free-play rounds or the Speed Run.

How to play

Daily Challenge: ten fixed flags for the day. Everyone gets the same set, so you can compare your emoji-grid score with friends. Come back tomorrow to keep your streak alive.
Flag to Country: the flagship mode. See a flag and name the country. Choose Easy for four multiple-choice options, Medium for a first-letter hint, or Hard to type the answer.
Country to Flag: the reverse. Read a country name and pick its flag from four look-alikes.
Speed Run: name as many flags as you can against the clock. Great for drilling the ones you keep missing.
Learn mode: a searchable library of every flag of the Americas with its capital, region, main language and currency. Study first, then quiz yourself.

Tips: how to tell the flags of the Americas apart

The Central American blue-white-blue five. Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua all inherit the blue-white-blue horizontal triband of the old United Provinces of Central America. Honduras carries five blue stars in the middle; El Salvador and Nicaragua each add a coat of arms. Guatemala uses the same colours turned vertical, and Costa Rica adds a bold red band. The central emblem is the tell.
The Gran Colombia yellow-blue-red trio. Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela share the yellow-blue-red horizontal bands of Simon Bolivar’s Gran Colombia. Colombia is plain, with yellow taking the top half. Ecuador adds a coat of arms with a condor over Mount Chimborazo. Venezuela has an arc of eight white stars.
Dominica and the Dominican Republic. Two different countries, often mixed up. Dominica is the small green Caribbean island flag with a purple Sisserou parrot in the centre. The Dominican Republic, on Hispaniola next to Haiti, is a blue-and-red flag split by a white cross with a coat of arms. In the quiz they are kept strictly separate, so you have to name each one in full.
The Caribbean island flags. Jamaica is the easy one: a gold diagonal cross on green and black, one of the very few national flags with no red, white or blue. Trinidad and Tobago is red with a black diagonal stripe, the Bahamas is aquamarine and gold with a black triangle, and Barbados is blue and gold with a broken trident.
The Sun of May and the lone star. Argentina and Uruguay both centre the golden Sun of May, Argentina on light-blue-and-white bands, Uruguay on nine stripes with a sun in the canton. Chile’s single white star on a blue canton is often mistaken for the United States or the Texas flag, while Cuba’s single star sits inside a red triangle at the hoist.

The 35 flags, and how we chose them

This quiz covers the 35 UN-member states of the Americas. That set splits into the Caribbean (13), South America (12), Central America (7) and North America (3: Canada, the United States and Mexico). We deliberately do not pad the list with territories and dependencies that are not sovereign UN members, such as Puerto Rico, Greenland or Bermuda. A clean, defensible 35 is the honest count of independent countries in the hemisphere.

Every flag is a real, public-domain SVG bundled into the app, not an emoji. Flag emoji do not render on Windows in most browsers, where they fall back to two plain letters, so a flags quiz built on emoji would break for a large share of players. Bundling the images means each flag looks identical on every device, and the whole quiz loads instantly and even works offline once opened.

Frequently asked questions

How many flags are in the Flags of the Americas quiz?

All 35, one for every UN-member country in North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. You can play a short 20-flag round, the 10-flag Daily Challenge, or an unlimited Speed Run across the full set.

Is it free?

Yes, completely free with no sign-up and no app to install. It runs in your web browser.

Does it work on mobile?

Yes. The quiz is mobile-first, with large tap targets and flags that scale cleanly to any screen. It works the same on phones, tablets and desktops.

How does the daily challenge work?

Each day everyone in the world gets the same ten flags, chosen by a date-seeded shuffle that runs in your browser. There is no server involved. When you finish you can copy a spoiler-free emoji grid of your result to share, and keeping up your daily play builds a streak.

What data powers the quiz?

Country facts come from the open mledoze/countries dataset (ODbL licence). Flag images are public-domain SVGs from flagcdn. Both are bundled into the app when it is built, so nothing is fetched from third parties while you play.

Why 35 flags and not more?

Because 35 is the number of fully recognised, UN-member countries in the Americas. Higher counts fold in territories and dependencies that are not sovereign states, such as Puerto Rico, Greenland or Bermuda. We stick to the 35 independent countries so the set is unambiguous.

More geography quizzes: try the Flags of the World Quiz, the European Flags Quiz, the Asian Flags Quiz, the African Flags Quiz, the North America Map Quiz, the South America Map Quiz and the South American Capitals Quiz, or browse every game on the Geography Quizzes hub.