Every flag in the world, and what is actually on it.
254 flags, each shown at the shape it is really flown in, with the colours taken from the flag itself. Free to read. No account, nothing to install.
Learn them, rather than look at them
How to memorise every flag
The method in six steps, honestly: what order to do them in, which pairs will cost you, how long it really takes, and ten flags to start on at the bottom of it.
The Daily Hoist
Ten flags, and the same ten for everybody in the world today, worked out from the date itself, which is what makes two scores worth comparing.
58 flag quizzes
By continent, by rank, by what is on the flag and by colour. Ten questions each, played on the page. No account and nothing to install.
The whole set, by region
And a page per day of the year that something is dated to, in the almanac.
Where all of this comes from
The flags are not ours
Every flag here comes from Wikimedia Commons, and every page says which file it is and who may use it, 246 Public domain, 5 CC0, 2 CC BY-SA 4.0, 1 OGL-om 1.0. None of them was drawn by us, and none was drawn by a machine.
The colours come off the flag
Every flag's colours are read from the picture itself, down to the exact shade. Not “red, white and blue”, the actual red.
We say when we don't know
90 of the 254 have a line about what the design means and when it was adopted, and each one names where it came from. The other 164 say plainly that there is nothing yet, rather than filling the space.
13 groups that fool everyone
Chad and Romania. The Nordic crosses. The pan-Arab tricolours. The flags people genuinely mix up are grouped by hand, so each one shows you its near-twins.