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Fun with Flags

195 countries · 22 look-alike groups

Could you tell Chad from Romania?
Now you will.

195 flags, taught one at a time. Spaced repetition moves each flag up its own ladder — so you actually remember them, not just recognise them for a second.

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The method

One ladder per flag.
You climb it at your own pace.

Get it right and a flag climbs a rung, with a longer wait before it returns. Slip up and it drops back — but never below rung 1 once you've met it. That's spaced repetition, quietly doing the work.

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Discovery

Flag, name and a few curated facts — no test yet.

1

Find the flag

Name shown → pick the matching flag.

2

Multiple choice

Flag shown → choose the name from four.

3

Two options

Down to two — the look-alike is the trap.

4

Type it

Free input, fuzzy-matched for typos and aliases.

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Mastered

Only the occasional review to keep it sharp.

22 look-alike groups · 59 flags

The flags that fool everyone —
learned until they don't.

Most quizzes ignore the hard part. We built the wrong answers out of the real look-alikes, so the difference is exactly what you practise.

ChadRomania

Chad & Romania

Blue-yellow-red vertical

Tell them apart: Chad's blue is a touch darker — otherwise near-identical. In 2004 Romania even raised it at the UN.

NetherlandsLuxembourg

Netherlands & Luxembourg

Red-white-blue horizontal

Tell them apart: Luxembourg's blue is lighter and the flag is longer.

IndonesiaMonaco

Indonesia & Monaco

Red over white

Tell them apart: only the proportion — Monaco is almost square.

NigerIndia

Niger & India

Orange-white-green + a disc

Tell them apart: Niger's centre is a plain orange sun; India's is the blue Ashoka wheel.

DenmarkSwedenNorway

The Nordic crosses

Denmark · Sweden · Norway · Finland · Iceland

Tell them apart: same off-centre cross — colour and the cross-within-cross decide.

MaliSenegalGuinea

Green-yellow-red

Mali · Senegal · Guinea · Cameroon

Tell them apart: Senegal adds a green star, Guinea reverses the order, Cameroon swaps to green-red-yellow.

Learn every flag.
Make it stick.

195 countries, one at a time — for real this time.

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