50 Flags of South America Quiz

1. 🇧🇷 Name the country behind this green-and-yellow flag emoji.

2. 🇨🇴 This emoji shows the flag of which nation?

3. 🇺🇾 Spot the country: which flag emoji is this?

4. Among South America's 12 independent countries, only one flag has vertical stripes. Whose is it?

5. A white band over a red band, plus a blue square with one white star: which country flies this?

6. Which nation's flag pairs light blue and white stripes with a golden sun right in the center?

7. Red on top, yellow in the middle, green at the bottom: whose three stripes are these?

8. Which South American flag has red, white and blue horizontal stripes with a round emblem in the middle?

9. Yellow, blue and red stripes with a curved row of white stars belong to which country?

10. Which country's flag is nicknamed 'The Golden Arrowhead'?

11. A single yellow star sits on a wide red band, edged by white and green stripes. Which flag is it?

12. French Guiana, on South America's north coast, officially flies which flag?

13. On Colombia's flag, how much of the flag does the yellow band cover?

14. Which three South American countries share yellow, blue and red flags handed down from Gran Colombia?

15. How many horizontal stripes run across Uruguay's flag?

16. Legend says José de San Martín picked red and white for Peru after seeing a flock of which birds?

17. Brazil's green and yellow trace back to two royal houses: Bragança and which other?

18. On Suriname's flag, what does the yellow star stand for?

19. How many different colors appear on Guyana's flag?

20. Paraguay's red, white and blue stripes were borrowed from the colors of which European country?

21. How many white stars arc across the blue stripe of Venezuela's flag?

22. On Bolivia's flag, the yellow stripe is linked to what?

23. The white stripe on Chile's flag is said to represent what?

24. What shape is the big yellow figure on Brazil's flag?

25. Which large bird spreads its wings atop Ecuador's coat of arms on the flag?

26. Besides a snowy mountain and a river, Ecuador's flag emblem shows what kind of boat?

27. What does Ecuador add to its yellow-blue-red flag that Colombia's national flag lacks?

28. Which wild relative of the llama appears on Peru's coat of arms?

29. The tree on Peru's coat of arms is the cinchona. Which medicine comes from its bark?

30. What do the words 'Ordem e Progresso' on Brazil's flag mean?

31. How many white stars sprinkle the blue globe on Brazil's flag?

32. Brazil's flag motto came from the ideas of which French thinker?

33. What makes Paraguay's flag so unusual among national flags?

34. Which animal sits on the back side of Paraguay's flag, beneath a liberty cap?

35. The seal on Paraguay's flag reads 'Paz y Justicia.' What does that mean?

36. Where does the Sun of May sit on Uruguay's flag?

37. Which two South American flags both feature the Sun of May?

38. Bolivia's 2009 constitution lists which checkered, rainbow-colored flag among the state symbols?

39. Which animal gallops across the coat of arms on Venezuela's government flag?

40. The thin white border on Guyana's flag represents what?

41. The Sun of May recalls a big public gathering in May 1810 in which city?

42. Which general first raised Argentina's sky-blue-and-white flag in 1812?

43. Argentina's flag inspired the blue-white-blue designs of countries in which region?

44. Venezuelans honor which independence leader as the creator of their flag?

45. Brazil swapped an imperial coat of arms for its starry blue globe after becoming what in 1889?

46. Suriname raised its current flag when it became independent from which country?

47. Guyana's flag grew from a design proposed by which American, later famous as a flag scholar?

48. Colombia adopted its yellow-blue-red flag after Simón Bolívar won which 1819 battle?

49. In which year did Chile adopt the lone-star flag it still flies today?

50. Uruguay's stripes with a corner emblem echo the layout of which country's flag?