Flags of South America Quiz

Test yourself on all 12 flags of South America. Every question shows a flag and four South America countries to choose from, so the answers are always close neighbors, just like a real test. This flags of South America quiz also has the flags in a printable form, and tables that sort the 12 flags by level, first letter and name length.

Flags of South America quiz to print (PDF)

The four printable pages below are a multiple-choice sheet, a write-in sheet, the answer key and a black-and-white version. Click a picture for the PDF.

How to play the flags of South America quiz

Set the level, the number of questions and the timer above the quiz. This quiz has 12 questions in three levels: 5 easy, 5 medium and 2 hard. A wrong answer shows the right one, and the result ends with a list of answers to learn.

Flags that are easy to mix up

• Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela: yellow, blue and red; Colombia’s yellow band is double width, Ecuador adds a coat of arms, Venezuela an arc of stars.
• Argentina and Uruguay: light blue and white with a “Sun of May”; Argentina has three stripes, Uruguay nine.
• Bolivia and Ghana (in Africa): red, yellow and green; Ghana has a black star.
• Paraguay: red, white and blue with a different emblem on each side.
• Brazil: a yellow diamond on green with a blue globe of stars.

Countries in this quiz

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Flags of South America quiz: 12 flags by level

The flags of South America quiz puts 12 flags of South America into three levels, so that every player can start at the right place. Easy has 5 flags, medium has 5 and hard has 2. The easy level has the flags that people see most often, and the hard level is mostly small countries:

South America flags quiz: countries by first letter

For the South America flags quiz, it helps to know the shape of the list. The letter B starts the most country names (2 of 12), then C (2). The counts for every letter are:

Names with fewer letters are quicker to write on the printed sheet. Counting only letters, the shortest and longest names in the quiz are:

South America flag quiz: design features to look for

Every question in an South America flag quiz comes down to a few design clues: the colors, the number of stripes and the symbols. These are the clues that matter most in South America:

• Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela all have yellow, blue and red stripes, a design they share from the time of Gran Colombia.
• Brazil has a green field with a yellow diamond and a blue globe, and the motto “Ordem e Progresso” on a band.
• Paraguay is the only national flag with a different design on the front and the back.
• Argentina and Uruguay both have a Sun of May with a face, on pale blue and white stripes.
• Chile has a single white star on a blue square, and Peru has red, white and red vertical stripes.
• Guyana is called the Golden Arrowhead, and Suriname has a big yellow star in the middle of a wide red band.

Guess the South America flags: a five-day study plan

To guess the South America flags with confidence, work through the levels in order. This plan uses the 5 easy, 5 medium and 2 hard flags in the quiz, plus a printed test to check what you remember:

Playing all 12 flags takes 2 minutes at 12 seconds each. Wikipedia’s list of national flags of sovereign states shows every flag with a short description, and the study of flags has its own name, vexillology.

Flags of South America quiz and the capitals quiz: study both

Link each flag with its capital: the capitals of South America quiz asks for the capital of the same countries.

Print this flags of South America quiz

Make a printable version with an answer key: 10 to 30 questions, as multiple choice or write-in answers.

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