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Bunting Quay Flag Quiz
Guess the flag on the pole at the end of Bunting Quay. All 195 flags, the 193 UN member states and the two observer states, by the whole world or one continent: pick the country from four names, pick the flag from four for a country's name, or type the name yourself. A miss on a look-alike brings a tip on telling the two apart, today's ten is the same for everyone, and Learn mode shows every flag with its capital and continent.
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How to play
- Press Start the round. Choose how to play (Flag to country, Country to flag or Type the country), where the flags come from (the whole world or one continent) and how many flags a round has.
- In Flag to country, a flag goes up the pole: pick its country from the four name boards. In Country to flag, a country's name goes up on the sign: pick its flag from the four cards.
- In Type the country, type the name of the flag on the pole and press Answer. Common other names count, and so does a small slip in a longer name, as long as it is nearer that name than any other country's.
- After each answer, the note on the quay gives the capital and continent, or, after a miss on a look-alike, a tip on telling it from the flag it gets confused with. Next flag moves on; a right answer moves on by itself unless you change that in Settings.
- At the end of the round you see your score, your best for that round and the flags to look at again, each a tap away in Learn mode. Menu opens today's ten, Learn the flags, your statistics, Settings and the rules.
Controls
- Touch or mouse: tap a name board or a flag card to answer. In Type the country, the letters on the quay type the name, so a phone's own keyboard stays out of the way. Menu and Next flag sit at the bottom edge, under your thumb.
- Keyboard: 1 to 4 pick a choice, Enter goes on to the next flag, letters type a name in Type the country, the left and right arrows step through Learn mode, Escape opens and closes the menu, and Tab moves between the buttons.
- Restart in the toolbar deals a new round with the same choices; a round left unfinished is not recorded. Today's ten stays put, since it is played once. The toolbar also has pause, help, optional sound and fullscreen.
What you do
Bunting Quay Flag Quiz is a flags of the world quiz played at the end of a stone and oak quay in a small harbor at dusk. A rowing boat rides at its mooring, the windows of the village across the water are lit, and a lamp post on the quay comes on as the sky goes from amber to ink blue. Each question's flag goes up the quay's flagpole and flies at its official proportions, so Indonesia's red and white is longer than Monaco's and Nepal's two pennants stand taller than they are wide. Every flag you answer is pegged onto the line of bunting strung across the top, and a missed one wears a small linen tag. Ottoline, a mute swan in a navy scarf with a terracotta stripe, keeps an eye on the round from the water. She breathes, blinks and follows your choice, nods at a right answer, raises a brow at a wrong one and inclines her head at the end of a round, which is as close as she comes to applause. The list is the 193 member states of the United Nations and the two observer states, the Holy See (shown as Vatican City) and the State of Palestine, with continents from the UN's own regions and capitals from Wikipedia's list of national capitals.
- All 195 flags: the 193 UN member states and the two UN observer states, Vatican City and Palestine, each drawn from a public domain file and shown at its official proportions.
- Three ways to play. Flag to country: name the flag on the pole from four countries. Country to flag: pick a country's flag from four. Type the country: name it yourself, with 111 other names accepted (Ivory Coast, Turkey, Czech Republic, Holland, Burma and more) and a small slip let through.
- The whole world or one continent: Africa (54 flags), Asia (48), Europe (44), North America (23), Oceania (14) or South America (12), in rounds of 10, 25 or every flag.
- Look-alikes on purpose. Wrong choices lean on the flags that really get confused, and a miss on one of 20 look-alike groups (Chad and Romania, Indonesia and Monaco, Ireland and Côte d'Ivoire and more) brings a tip on telling them apart.
- Today's ten: ten flags from all over the world, the same for everyone on the same date, played once, with a streak and a result line you can copy that names no flags.
- Learn mode: browse every flag with its capital and continent, by continent or A to Z, with its look-alikes a tap away. Your best scores for every way, region and length, and your streak of right answers in each way, are saved in this browser.
Tips worth knowing
- Most flags are not the same shape, and the quiz shows each at its official proportions. By our count, 87 of the 195 flags are 2:3, 53 are 1:2 and 18 are 3:5; Switzerland and Vatican City are square, Nepal is taller than it is wide and Qatar is the longest, 11:28. When two flags share colors, the shape is often the giveaway.
- Expect a look-alike among the wrong answers. In our deal of 39,000 Flag to country questions from the whole world, 82.5% of the questions on a flag in one of the 20 look-alike groups offered another flag from the same group, and 93% of all the wrong names came from the answer's own continent.
- Learn the look-alikes as pairs, not one at a time. Chad's blue is darker than Romania's; Indonesia's red and white is longer than Monaco's; Ireland has green by the pole and Côte d'Ivoire orange. The tip after a miss says what to look for, and Learn mode puts the pair side by side.
- In Type the country, spell it your way. Case, accents, "the" and "St." do not matter, and one slip in a name of five letters or more (two from ten letters) counts as close enough. It never lets a name pass for its neighbor, though: by our count, 9 pairs of accepted names are a single letter apart, like Iran and Iraq or Gambia and Zambia, and 49 more are two apart, like Niger and Nigeria.
- Play one continent at a time. A round of Oceania's 14 or South America's 12 is short enough to finish with every flag, and the wrong choices come from the same continent, so you learn to tell neighbors apart.
- Today's ten walks through the whole list before any flag comes back: in our check of the first 400 days, every one of the 195 flags had come up by day 20, and no flag came up two days running.
Accessibility
- Everything can be played with a keyboard: 1 to 4 pick a choice, Enter goes on, letters type a name, the arrows step through Learn mode, and every button is reachable with Tab.
- Every choice is a button labeled with its country's name, except in Country to flag, where the four flags are Flag 1 to Flag 4 until you answer. Each answer is read out with the right country, its capital and continent, or the look-alike tip.
- Color is never the only clue: a right choice gets a check mark, a wrong one a cross, and the note on the quay says in words which flag it was.
- Nothing is timed. A right answer moves on by itself after a moment, which you can turn off in Settings; after a miss the quiz always waits for you.
- Reduced motion keeps the flags still on the pole and the bunting, pegs answered flags in place without the drop and keeps Ottoline still. Sound is optional and never needed to play.
Questions
Which countries are in the flag quiz?
The 193 member states of the United Nations, as the UN lists them, and the two non-member observer states, the Holy See (shown as Vatican City, the state whose flag it flies) and the State of Palestine: 195 flags in all. Territories, dependencies and states outside the UN, such as Greenland, Puerto Rico, Kosovo or Taiwan, are not in this quiz. Names are the short names in everyday English, usually the UN's own (Côte d'Ivoire, Czechia, Eswatini, Myanmar, Türkiye), and the common other names are accepted when you type.
Where do the flags come from?
Every flag but one is a public domain file from Wikimedia Commons, fetched at a recorded revision, checked against its published hash and stored with the game, so nothing is loaded from another site. Oman's flag is drawn for the game to the same layout, with its emblem from the MIT-licensed flag-icons project. Each is shown at its official proportions.
Which flag does the quiz show for Afghanistan?
The black, red and green tricolor with the national emblem, which is still the flag used for Afghanistan at the United Nations and at the Olympic Games. Since 2021 the Taliban government has flown a white flag with the Shahada in black. Learn mode says so on Afghanistan's card.
How are continents decided?
By the UN's M49 regions. The Americas are split the way M49 splits them: South America is its own continent, and Northern America, Central America and the Caribbean together are North America. M49 puts Cyprus, Türkiye, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in Western Asia and Russia in Eastern Europe, and so does the quiz.
How does today's ten work?
Every date has its own ten flags, the same for everyone, as Flag to country with four names each. You play it once a day, and a day played adds to your streak. The ten walk through all 195 flags before any comes back, so you see the whole list in 20 days. The result line you can copy shows a box for each flag, filled for right and empty for missed, and never names a flag.
What does the game save?
Your choices for the next round, the round in play with every answer so far, today's ten, your best and average score for every way of playing, region and length, your streak of right answers in a row in each way, your days of today's ten, and how often you have named each flag, all in this browser's local storage. There is no account.
Guides and roundups
Game details
- Genre
- Cozy Puzzle
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Session
- Two or three minutes a round of ten, saved as you go
- Inputs
- Keyboard, Mouse, Touch
- Devices
- Desktop, Tablet, Mobile
- Made by
- CozyWorld
- Updated
- 2026-10-31
A gentle geography quiz with no purchases, accounts or timers. Country names are neutral, the everyday short form in English, and flags are the current national flags as the UN lists the states.
