The flags of Africa
59 of the world’s 254 flags are filed under Africa. Each one is shown at the shape it is really flown in.
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Republic of the Congo
- Réunion
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Western Sahara
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Can you name them?
57 of the 59, drawn ten at a time, with the wrong answers drawn from the flags people really do confuse them with. The 2 left out fly a picture that already belongs to another flag, so a question showing one would have two right answers.
The parts of Africa 5
The same flags, cut smaller.
How a flag gets onto this list
It is filed there. Every flag in this atlas carries a region and, for most of them, a part of that region — and both come from the same country dataset the names come from, rather than from anybody here. Nothing on this page was decided by us: the list is rebuilt from that filing on every build, so a country that moves upstream moves here.
Which means the lists are a filing system and not a claim about who belongs with whom. Five flags in this atlas are not countries at all and are described by hand, because no country dataset has a row for them.