50 Flags of Africa Quiz

1. Which West African country places a vertical green panel beside a yellow upper rectangle and a red lower rectangle?

2. Which country's flag is red above green, with a single yellow star straddling the middle?

3. A white diagonal cross separates red and green panels around a white disk with three stars. Which country's flag is this?

4. Which Atlantic island country has a mostly blue flag crossed by white-red-white bands and a ring of yellow stars?

5. Four horizontal bands of blue, white, green and yellow are crossed by a central red vertical stripe. A yellow star sits near the top left. Which country?

6. Yellow, white, red and blue stripes meet a green triangle with a white crescent and a vertical line of stars. Which island country?

7. A yellow diagonal band separates a green upper pole-side triangle from a red lower outer triangle. Which country flies it?

8. A sky-blue flag has a yellow star near the pole and a red diagonal stripe edged in yellow. Which country's flag fits?

9. Light blue above light green, plus a white pole-side triangle containing a red star: which country?

10. Which country adds a blue pole-side triangle and a central tree shield to green-white-red horizontal bands?

11. A long red triangle points across a flag between green above and blue below, with a gold olive wreath near the pole. Which country?

12. Which Central African country flies three equal horizontal bands of green, yellow and blue without an emblem?

13. Red at the top, blue in the middle and green below, with thin white separators: which West African country's flag is this?

14. Which country's flag has a black star on a vertical red panel beside yellow-over-green horizontal bands?

15. A black traditional hat rests on a white stripe between blue above and green below. Which southern African country's flag fits?

16. Which African flag has red-and-white horizontal stripes and one white star inside a blue corner square?

17. Which country places a red rising sun on a black top stripe above red and green horizontal stripes?

18. Four equal stripes run red, blue, yellow and green from top to bottom. Which Indian Ocean country's flag fits?

19. Orange, white and green horizontal bands carry an orange disk in the middle. Which country's flag is described?

20. Which island country puts black stars on a wide yellow band between green stripes, with a red triangle beside the pole?

21. Which West African national flag stacks green above white above blue, with no emblem?

22. Which country's national flag has red-white-black horizontal bands joined by a green triangle at the pole?

23. Which West African flag uses green-and-yellow horizontal stripes with a white star in a red upper corner square?

24. Which country places an orange eagle above a red-black-orange striped block at the free end of a mostly green flag?

25. What color are both the crescent and the star on Algeria's national flag?

26. What traditional name is used for the green pentacle on Morocco's flag?

27. What color is the central disk behind Tunisia's red crescent and star?

28. Somalia's blue flag background was originally chosen as a tribute to which international organization?

29. Which color fills the star on Ghana's red-gold-green tricolor?

30. What color is the star centered on the red band of Cameroon's flag?

31. Which color is used for Senegal's star in the middle of its yellow stripe?

32. How many green bands appear on Nigeria's plain national flag?

33. What color is the vertical panel beside the pole on Madagascar's flag?

34. What color are the narrow lines immediately above and below Botswana's black stripe?

35. What separates Namibia's red diagonal band from the blue and green areas?

36. Ignoring the sun emblem, what fraction of Rwanda's flag is covered by the broad blue band?

37. How many horizontal stripes lie behind the crane emblem on Uganda's flag?

38. The yellow star on Ethiopia's flag sits on a disk of which color?

39. Leaving aside the pole-side triangle, how many horizontal stripes run across Zimbabwe's flag?

40. Which color fills the broad diagonal band between Tanzania's green and blue triangles?

41. What color forms the narrow borders immediately above and below the broad red stripe on Eswatini's flag?

42. The scroll beneath the eagle on Egypt's flag carries the country's name in which language?

43. How many different colored bands fan across Seychelles' national flag?

44. What local name is given to the traditional hat pictured on Lesotho's flag?

45. What kind of tree stands on the shield in Equatorial Guinea's flag emblem?

46. What color is the flying eagle above the striped block on Zambia's flag?

47. The half-sun on Malawi's flag is depicted doing what?

48. How many yellow stars form the circle on Cabo Verde's flag?

49. Which three-word national motto is echoed by the three stars on Burundi's flag?

50. How many black stars sit side by side on São Tomé and Príncipe's yellow band?