Top 20 Most Famous Country Flags

In the Flags of the World quiz, which countries' flags are people most likely to recognise?
% naming a country as at January 2015
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Last updated: January 25, 2015
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Country
99
United States
98
United Kingdom
97
Australia
97
Canada
93
New Zealand
93
France
92
Italy
90
Japan
89
Russia
89
South Korea
89
Brazil
88
Ireland
87
Sweden
87
China
86
Greece
85
Netherlands
85
Finland
85
Norway
85
Israel
84
Switzerland
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Level 76
Jan 17, 2015
Good idea!
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Level 67
Jan 18, 2015
I'm surprised that so many people can tell the difference between the Australian and New Zealand flags.
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Level 76
Jan 18, 2015
I'm not sure that they can! Many will know the two flags go with the two countries, and here they can easily type in the second box if the first doesn't match. It may become moot, because by 2017 NZ will have completed its referendum on whether to change its flag.
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Level 55
Mar 22, 2020
It's 2020 right now. The referendum failed. In the end, the people got to vote whether to have this other flag or the one with the Union Jack, and the Union Jack flag won.
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Level 52
Jul 23, 2017
I'm surprised that they also wouldn't recognize the German flag.
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Level 52
Oct 31, 2015
Silly me, here I was thinking that people would be able to identify very distinctive flags, such as Mexico, Cyprus, South Africa, but it appears people just start typing like crazy and start with the countries they know.
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Level 55
Mar 22, 2020
South Africa? It looks a bit like most African flags, but I get what you mean. The thing is, though, that on the quiz, they have a yellow box and you have to go in order. Although you are able to skip around, it is found easier by people to just go in order, skip the ones that they don't know, and go back to them later.
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Level 23
Jan 31, 2016
I got all of them apart from Netherlands because a lot of people get mixed up with the flags of Russia and Netherlands. People also can't distinguish between Holland and the Netherlands :/
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Level 59
Jul 24, 2017
Surprised Nepal isn't on here. Only non-square or rectangle national flag.
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Level 32
Nov 5, 2020
It's probably the fact that Nepal isn't that famous of a country. Flags are probably more known the more that country is known
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Level 45
Aug 23, 2017
Not againn!!! I forgot France...
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Level 59
Apr 19, 2023
Certainly Nepal and South Africa . . .

Nice quiz, mate!