Flags of Countries of the World in 1910

Try to name the countries of the world in 1910 based on their flags.

Answer must correspond to the yellow box

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104 Recent Comments

Level 59

Jul 23, 2019

Isn't Afghanistan missing?

+13

Level 56

Jul 23, 2019

Afghanistan was a British protectorate at the time, gaining independence in 1919.

Level 49

Apr 19, 2020

but then why is canada and australia and south africa in there??

Level 59

Jun 5, 2021

They had a much greater level of autonomy within the British Empire as dominions, rather than colonies or protectorates.

Level 56

Sep 2, 2021

Afghanistan has now been included due to its nominal "protected state" status.

Level 75

Jul 23, 2019

I would like it added to the caveat that we are talking independent countries here. These days Scotland is still a country, Wales is a country, they are just not independent. Likewise in 1910 there were many more areas that considered themselves a country, they just didn't have independence. (Ideally add it to the quiz name too, but I concede that makes it just too long, so caveat at least, please?)

+24

Level 86

Jul 28, 2019

No, they're just regions that are called countries. There's little doubt what a country usually means on such quizzes, apart from the level of recognition. Similarly in other languages, "pays" in French can mean many things, but "pays du monde" is clear.

+13

Level 92

Jul 30, 2019

You can also say you live in the country, meaning a rural area, but doesn't mean East Bumf County is a sovereign nation.

Level 58

Dec 28, 2019

Scotland is a country, and Wales is a principality.

Level 55

Aug 31, 2024

Wales is one of the four constituent countries of the UK (so say both the UK government and the Welsh government - you know, the people who should know such things!). A principality is just a description of type of country or territory, and certainly doesn't stop a principality from being a country (Monaco, Andorra and Liechtenstein are all principalities and independent sovereign countries). Wales is only a principality in a ceremonial sense, not in any legal or constitutional sense.

Level 74

Jul 23, 2019

Shouldn't the Vatican also be included?

+17

Level 56

Jul 23, 2019

The Vatican City didn't gain its independence until 1929.

Level 86

Jul 28, 2019

And Papal State was fully occupied and annexed to Italy by 1870.

Level 74

Jul 23, 2019

Really interesting quiz. Needs more time for those of us who have to scroll up and down every single time on Ipads.

Level 80

Jul 23, 2019

I wonder where El Salvador got it's flag from...

Level 81

Jul 24, 2019

Probably from the Native American tradition hmmm...

+18

Level 81

Jul 24, 2019

Beautiful old flag of Montenegro :)

Level 57

Aug 20, 2019

The most beautiful flag in the world!

Level 93

Jul 25, 2019

Maybe you should edit out the legend on Paraguay's flag.

Level 63

Dec 2, 2023

I didn't get it, so now I feel like an idiot.

Level 76

Jul 27, 2019

Wasn't Ethiopia called Abyssinia in 1910?

Level 47

Sep 3, 2019

I gave up at the Dervish State and got everything beyond it wrong because of the yellow box

Level 47

Sep 3, 2019

I just realized I forgot I could've just clicked on the next flag and keep going -_-

Level 47

Sep 4, 2019

Weren't Hawaii an independent state?

Level 68

Sep 4, 2019

They were annexed around the turn of the 1900's if I am correct.

Level 56

Sep 8, 2019

Correct. The kingdom was overthrown by pro-US annexation coup in 1893 and then finally annexed in 1898.

Level 60

Sep 4, 2019

why isn't “German empire” accepted?

Level 46

Sep 4, 2019

I think "Shammar" or "Jabal Shammar" should be accepted for Ha'il as that is another name for the emirate.

Level 56

Sep 8, 2019

Jabal Shammar was already accepted.

Level 57

Sep 4, 2019

Where is Bhutan in this list - was certainly independent in 1910.

Level 56

Sep 8, 2019

Well, it was until January 8th. However, Bhutan didn't have a flag until 1949.

Level 67

Nov 20, 2019

I was going to put the same...

Maybe add a box with no flag?

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Level 36

Sep 4, 2019

This chinese flag looks way better than the communist flag they have today.

Level 80

Sep 3, 2021

Commies gotta commie.

Level 45

Sep 5, 2019

should except Rhodesia for South Africa

Level 56

Sep 8, 2019

That would be wrong. Rhodesia was modern day Zambia and Zimbabwe under the British South Africa Company while the Union of South Africa was a dominion of the British Empire.

Level 66

Sep 8, 2019

Sorry, but Bodhitrad is correct. Rhodesia (actually 2 countries, Northern and Southern) were both north of the Limpopo river. This flag was never used by either, but it was used by the Union of South Africa, replacing it with the Orange, White and Blue at a later stage (I think when the Nationalist Party came to power and made the country a republic). Southern Rhodesia did have a plebiscite about joining the Union of South Africa, but it was thoroughly defeated, as they wanted to go it alone.

Level 66

Sep 8, 2019

First off, I want to congradulate you on your first featured quiz, I hope that more of your quizes will be featured. About this one, there were several that I know, several that I guessed and several that I knew the country existed (Persia) and just kept on putting it in until it came up. Thanks for a great quiz, and I hope that we get to see more of your quizes featured.

Level 56

Sep 9, 2019

Thanks!

Level 92

Oct 28, 2019

Agree with this. Absolutely love these flag quizzes and have learnt an awful lot from them. Definitely deserve a wider audience.

Level 70

Sep 10, 2019

Thank you Paraguay, Nicaragua and Newfoundland (Terra Nova) for putting your name on your flag! Helps a lot on these quizzes.

Level 63

Nov 22, 2019

That's what I thought.

Level 45

Sep 16, 2019

I love this quiz! Historically and vexilologically. Thanks!

Level 67

Nov 20, 2019

What about Crete, Korean Empire or Wadai?

Also, I'm not sure about the status of New Foundland or South Africa...

Level 56

Nov 20, 2019

The Cretan State was just autonomous within the Ottoman Empire and had been de facto annexed by Greece in 1908. The Korean Empire was a Japanese protectorate in its last five years from 1905 to 1910. The Wadai Sultanate didn't seem to have a flag.

As for Newfoundland and South Africa, they are included due to their dominion status.

Level 63

Nov 22, 2019

What does one have to type to get Austria-Hungary? Because that doesn't work.

Level 56

Nov 22, 2019

Nothing seems wrong with the type-in. Just typing 'Austria' should work.

Level 63

Dec 2, 2023

You probably hadn't moved the yellow box properly.

Level 20

Apr 21, 2020

Ottaman

Level 52

Feb 13, 2026

It’s definitely Ottoman

Level 99

May 21, 2020

This is QAJAR not persia

Level 54

Sep 5, 2023

The state in this area at the time was known by many names, including Qajar, Persia, and Iran, and its official name was the Sublime State of Iran.

Level 72

Jan 21, 2021

Pretty sure you got Russia's flag wrong. Maybe not, i dunno.

Level 32

Jan 27, 2021

You should accept German Empire for Germany because that is what the flag actually is

Level 40

Mar 30, 2021

only typing ''Saudi'' will work for Saudi Arabia. fix pls

Level 56

Mar 30, 2021

No. It's a predecessor state of Saudi Arabia often referred to as the "Third Saudi State", which is why it works.

Level 29

Apr 23, 2021

Why am I surprised 3x more people got Siam than Persia

Level 83

Sep 3, 2021

well it was kinda easy to guess. "What country is associated with elephants?" looking in SE Asia, it doesn't take long to figure it out XD

Level 72

May 28, 2021

Where is Russian Empire's flag?

Level 56

May 28, 2021

Literally the third one in the first row. Unless you mean the black-yellow-white tricolour, which was no longer the official flag by 1910.

Level 87

Sep 3, 2021

If both Johor and Afghanistan were included even though they were protected states, shouldn’t Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah, Perlis, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo be there too? All of them were British protected states, a status shared by nearby Johor. Whether they were protected states in 1910 or not I am not that sure.

Level 52

Mar 23, 2025

While both Afghanistan and Johor were officially British protected states at the time, the British barely had any control on Afghanistan and they later gave up and just let Afghanistan independence again.

Meanwhile Johor was basically independent with the exception of foreign affairs which was handled by the British until 1914 when it was finally brought under British control.

Level 88

Sep 3, 2021

I wonder what the Najran and Morocco flag designers did with the rest of their time.

Level 47

Nov 12, 2021

I would love to read more about Najran as a country. Could anyone point me in the direction of reading material about it?

Level 56

Nov 12, 2021

Not much is known about Najran as an (de facto) independent state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Najran.

Although information on the principality is hard to find, it's known that conflicts were fought for the territory between the Yemenis and the Saudis in 1931-1932 and 1933-1934, when the principality's independence finally ended and its territory was officially ceded to Saudi Arabia.

Level 55

Feb 5, 2022

I typed "Ottomon" but not "Empire". I thought that it would automatically fill in the word "Empire" if it was correct.

Level 56

Feb 5, 2022

Because it's "Ottoman" and not "Ottomon".

Level 60

Mar 7, 2022

They obviously put a lot of effort into the Moroccan flag

Level 49

Mar 25, 2022

the dervish state flag hurt my eyeballs :(

Level 91

Jun 29, 2023

I think it looks cool!

Level 59

Apr 29, 2022

This starts off super easy and then gets harder and harder

Level 72

Jun 16, 2022

Didn't South Africa also have the Orange Free State and that other thing I forgot?

Level 55

Oct 11, 2022

Whoever created Najran and Morocco's flags sure thought long and hard about it.

Level 65

Apr 21, 2023

On mobile, the Bulgarian flag doesn’t display. The only way of knowing it is the Bulgarian flag is by clicking on the unloaded image, or by guessing. Maybe you should fix this, since it would be easier to see the flag immediately rather than click. Since this is a minor error, it doesn’t need to be fixed.

Level 56

Apr 21, 2023

This is not something that's under my control, unfortunately.

Level 53

Apr 26, 2023

The more things change…

The more they stay the same.

Level 45

Aug 26, 2023

Wow, a 3:1 flag. Now I've seen it all.

Level 97

Sep 5, 2023

Did someone retroactively change their flag 100+ years later?

Level ∞

Sep 5, 2023

Either there was an error on the quiz that the quizmaker fixed or the Wikipedia source changed.

Level 81

Sep 5, 2023

Mbunda was added, I believe.

Level 56

Sep 5, 2023

If you want a transparent list of things that were changed:

- The flag of Honduras before the update was actually erroneous and originally used a variant flag (yellow stars instead of blue) instead of the proper one.

- Chile's flag before the update used an older version of the current flag that had long become obsolete by 1910.

- Addition of Mbunda.

- Added clarity to the Austro-Hungarian flag that said flag is a civil ensign.

- Replaced Portugal's flag with a new updated version.

Level 74

Sep 5, 2023

Was Mbunda internationally recognized?

Level 56

Sep 5, 2023

Uncertain, but my guess would be probably not (despite it having existed since the early 16th century). This was near the very end of the Scramble for Africa, when most of Africa was already colonized by the European powers. Only a handful of smaller uncolonized polities still existed by 1910.

Level 63

Sep 5, 2023

I can't believe I missed Mbunda.

Level 70

Sep 5, 2023

you gotta make more of these

Level 70

Sep 5, 2023

Ah yes, the Dervish state. Great flag design based on replicability but MAN does it mess with you visually on screen. That thing gave me vertigo.

Level 52

Feb 13, 2026

I had to look up Dervish state because I was so curious why the flag was like that!

Level 85

Sep 6, 2023

I just want to say kudos to Dekkie and Quizmaster for the UI feature here that on the mobile version (on iOS, at least) autoscrolls to the next flag and centers it on the screen after typing in the previous answer. Minor detail but a useful one.

Level 61

Dec 2, 2023

This quiz started as easy, easy, not so easy, easy, not so easy, no easy, hard, ummm...., wtf!?

Well done!

Level 61

Dec 2, 2023

Luxembourg should be a type-in for the fourth flag - the lighter blue stripe wasn't required till 1993. Hence the rather confusing-looking scoreboard at the 1990 Eurovision

Level 56

Dec 2, 2023

The modern Dutch flag's colours were adopted around 1806 also weren't fully standardized until 1958 and even then different shade variations of the flag are still common today. The Luxembourgish flag was de facto adopted in circa 1845.

As for the Eurovision scoreboard argument, I looked up the 1990 performances for both the Netherlands and Luxembourg to see if the flag would be shown on screen. Seems like that Luxembourgish flag is indeed still shown in a lighter shade than the Dutch one there.

Level 61

Dec 2, 2023

So they are! The Eurovision scoreboard is totally not meant to be an argument - I don't think the choices of Yugoslav visual effects technicians really prove anything. Maybe evidence of a sort is on the Lëtzebuergesch Wikipedia page, where Grand-Duke Henri's monogrammed flag has what looks to me more like the Dutch shade of blue than the sky-blue we're used to. (According to the description this does just seem to be a monogrammed national flag rather than a royal standard as such.)

My point isn't that in 1900 the sky-blue stripe wasn't the conventional choice - just that the dark blue was another possible correct choice.

Level 56

Dec 3, 2023

Yeah, I get the point you're trying to make here, but I think it's best to just avoid any possible confusion here and maintain things as they are.

Level 63

Dec 2, 2023

This quiz is outdated. Update please. ;)

Level 32

May 21, 2024

Hi, Can I translate the quiz to german?

Level 56

May 21, 2024

Sure. As long as proper credit is given.

Level 32

Jun 5, 2024

Sure, thanks!

Here is the link: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1607096/flaggen-der-welt-in-1910

With you as the original :)

Level 68

Sep 7, 2024

As a Singaporean, I kick myself for not getting Johor.

Level 28

Oct 23, 2024

How tf did I not get Canada :'(

Level 29

Mar 21, 2025

why is no one talking about how romania and andorra have the same exact flag lmao

Level 56

Mar 21, 2025

It is still the civil flag of Andorra today, though rarely used. I should probably change it to a flag that is a bit more known to be accurate for the time period and is a horizontal tricolour instead.

Level 45

Mar 31, 2025

morocco's flag is just red

Level 61

Aug 4, 2025

Wow really interesting quiz! Will be doing some study on the old flags Nd country it fascinates me

Level 61

Sep 11, 2025

has anyone made a 1939 version?