Asian flags

All 47 flags of Asia, with their names and capitals. Hide the names to test yourself, then take the quiz.

Hide the names to test yourself.

Flag families in Asia

Asia stretches from Turkey to Japan, and its flags are easiest to learn region by region. In West Asia many flags use the Pan-Arab colours of red, white, black and green, and Qatar and Bahrain both have a white band with a zigzag edge next to the flagpole.

Central Asian flags often carry national symbols: Kazakhstan's has a golden sun and a steppe eagle, and Turkmenistan's has a vertical stripe of carpet patterns. Further east are some of the simplest designs in the world, such as Japan's red disc and Indonesia's red and white halves.

How to learn them

Group the flags by region inside Asia: West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, then East and South-East Asia. Each region has its own look.

Flags people mix up in this quiz

Egypt

Iraq

Yemen

Red, white and black stripes. Egypt has a golden eagle and Iraq has green Arabic script. Yemen's flag is the plain tricolour.

Jordan and Palestine share black, white and green stripes with a red triangle; Jordan adds a small white star. Sudan puts red on top and a green triangle. Kuwait uses a black trapezoid, and the UAE a vertical red band.

Qatar

Bahrain

Both have a white band with a zigzag edge. Qatar is maroon with nine points; Bahrain is red with five points.

Hungary is red, white, green from the top. Bulgaria is white, green, red. Iran is green, white, red with a red emblem. Tajikistan is red, white, green with a gold crown and stars.

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

Territories and other flags in Asia

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