Random flag generator

Press Generate for a random flag: the red and white of Poland, the dragon of Bhutan, the double pennant of Nepal. This random flag generator draws from all 195 national flags and keeps each one in its official proportions. Switzerland comes out square, Qatar long and narrow.

Cover the name with your thumb, say the country, then check. That turns any flag into a quiz. Drill the pairs that catch everyone out: Chad and Romania share blue, yellow and red; Indonesia and Monaco both put red over white; Ireland and Ivory Coast swap green and orange. A teacher can put a flag of the day on the board. On a long drive, whoever names the country first picks the next song.

Designers and artists can start a sketch from one. See how Japan gets by with a single disc, or how many flags manage with three stripes, then draw your own. Model-UN clubs roll one to hand out delegations, and streamers spin the wheel to choose the country for a viewer challenge.

Set the continent filter when a lesson covers only Europe or only Africa. Draw 10 at once for a quiz sheet, with no flag twice. Under each flag you see the country, its capital and its proportions as height to width, and the table below the generator lists all 195 by continent.

This page covers real national flags only, the same 195 the country generator uses. For a fantasy kingdom you need a flag maker instead.