Flagory
The atlas

Every flag in the world, and what is actually on it.

254 flags, each drawn at the shape it is really published in, with its colours measured off the artwork rather than described from memory. Free to read, no account, no upload.

Browse every flag →or learn them by heart

Where it comes from

Measured, vendored, and credited

The artwork is somebody else's

Every flag here is a file vendored from Wikimedia Commons with its licence recorded beside it — 247 Public domain, 5 CC0, 1 OGL-om 1.0, 1 CC BY-SA 4.0. No flag on this site was drawn by us or by a model.

The colours are read off the file

The palette shown for a flag is extracted from its own artwork by the build, so it is what the flag contains rather than what anybody remembers it containing.

Facts are written, and only where there are any

90 of the 254 carry a hand-written line about what the design means and when it was adopted, each with the source it was taken from. The rest carry none, and say so.

13 groups that fool everyone

Chad and Romania, the Nordic crosses, the pan-Arab tricolours — the groups that are genuinely hard to tell apart are curated rather than guessed.

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