African flags

All 54 flags of Africa, with their names and capitals. Hide the names to test yourself, then take the quiz.

Hide the names to test yourself.

Flag families in Africa

Green, yellow and red are the most common colours on African flags. They come from the flag of Ethiopia, and Ghana was the first newly independent African country to use them, in 1957. Many countries that became independent in the following years did the same.

A second group uses red, black and green, the colours of Marcus Garvey's Pan-African movement; Kenya and Malawi are examples. In North Africa, Egypt and Sudan use the Pan-Arab red, white, black and green, and Algeria, Tunisia and Libya each carry a crescent and star.

How to learn them

Learn Mali, Senegal, Guinea and Cameroon together. They use the same three colours, and only the order of the stripes and the stars tell them apart.

Flags people mix up in this quiz

Mali is a plain green, yellow, red vertical tricolour. Senegal adds a green star in the middle. Guinea reverses the order to red, yellow, green. Cameroon is green, red, yellow with a yellow star in the centre.

Bolivia is red, yellow, green. Ghana uses the same order with a black star. Lithuania is yellow, green, red. Ethiopia is green, yellow, red with a blue disc and star.

See every pair in our guide to flags that look alike.

Territories and other flags in Africa

Know them all? Prove it in the Africa flag quiz or the full flags of the world quiz.