Credits and licences

This quiz is built on open data and freely licensed images. Thank you to everyone who drew, collected and published them.

Flags of countries and territories

From flag-icons by Panayiotis Lipiras, used under the MIT licence.

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Flags and emblems of regions

From the iso3166-flags collection by AJ McKenna (MIT licence), and from Wikimedia Commons for the states of the United States and Germany, the regions of Italy and the prefectures of Japan. Where a region has no flag, its coat of arms or official symbol is shown.

Flags of cities, historical flags and flags of peoples

Images and descriptions from the niemela/flags collection, which gathers them mostly from Wikimedia Commons. Names and dates in the History and Cities sections are adapted from that collection's metadata, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; our adapted lists are available under the same licence.

Images from Wikimedia Commons

Each image keeps the licence given on its Wikimedia Commons page: most are in the public domain, others are under Creative Commons licences such as CC BY-SA. Images are scaled to fit and drawn with a waving effect. If you made one of these images and want a specific credit, a correction or its removal, write to us and we will act on it.

Capitals

Capitals of regions come from GeoNames, licensed CC BY 4.0.

Typefaces and logo

Outfit (The Outfit Project Authors) and Figtree (The Figtree Project Authors), both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and served from this site. The globe logo was drawn for Vexillology & Capitals.

Official symbols

Flags, coats of arms and seals are official symbols, and many are protected by law whatever their copyright status. They appear here only to identify the place or people they belong to. This site is independent: it is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any government, authority or organisation shown.

Privacy

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Content note

Flags of regimes and symbols of hatred

The History section includes flags of states and regimes responsible for war, genocide, slavery and persecution, among them Nazi Germany, the fascist states of the 1930s and 1940s, the Confederate States of America and apartheid-era South Africa. Some of these flags are used as symbols of hatred today.

They are shown for historical and educational purposes only, so that the record of flags is complete and these symbols can be recognised for what they were. Their presence is not an endorsement, a celebration or a promotion of the regimes, ideologies or movements behind them, which this site rejects.

Each of these flags is labelled with the state and the years in which it was used, and marked with a short notice when it appears in a quiz.

Disputed territories and unrecognised states

Borders, names and statuses are contested in many places. Listing a territory, a name, a capital or a flag describes common usage and takes no position on sovereignty or recognition.

Peoples and nations

Flags of peoples and nations without a state are shown as those communities use them today. If you belong to one of them and see something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Accuracy

Many early states had no flag in the modern sense; some entries are banners or standards attributed to them by later sources. Corrections are welcome.