Mnemonics for memorizing each world flag

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I’m building a game to help people learn world flags (flagquiz.fyi) and as part of it, I’m writing mnemonics to help people remember flags they miss. This is a very difficult task, though, so I could use your help! What mnemonics do you use to memorize flags?

I’ve found that rhyming helps them stick, but that’s tough for some of them. Here’s where I’m at so far.

🇨🇲 Cameroon has a maroon middle and a mustard star.
🇱🇮 Crown shine, Liechtenstein.
🇧🇸 Like a shark fin in striped pajamas, it’s Bahamas!
🇬🇫 French Guiana? More like green on ya! (Ya for yellow)
🇮🇩 Like a cherry floating on milk of magnesia, it’s Indonesia.
🇲🇺 Like a stick of Fruit Stripe gum, it’s delicious Mauritius.
🇸🇻 A deep blue ceiling and floor, it’s El Salvador.
🇹🇿 That panther black slant is your panacea, it’s Tanzania.
🇨🇩 “Doctor, where should we put the yellow star?” “It Congo in the corner.”
🇸🇽 Sint Maarten’s flag is simple and fine, remember it by its emblem design.
🇬🇪 Enough red crosses for ya? That’s Georgia.
🇲🇹 The cross is like a keyhole on a vault. Vault → Vaulta → Malta
🇲🇴 The lotus looks like something a (ma)cow would love to eat.
🇱🇹 “Yellow linear Lithuania” Try saying that ten times fast.
🇭🇺 I’m red when I’m Hungary and green when I’m fed, white in the middle so this rhyme isn’t dead.
🇷🇸 If the emblem is bigger than suburbia, it’s Serbia.
🇬🇶 Remember Equatorial Guinea for it’s aqua-torial blue triangle.
🇺🇬 Out on the veranda you see a little bird, that’s Uganda.
🇦🇪 UAE, looking a bit squarey.
🇵🇾 Paraglide into Paraguay’s red, white, and blue bands.
🇳🇮 Agua above, agua below → Nicar-AGUA.
🇭🇳 The stars look like an H for Honduras.
🇦🇩 Andorra’s flag has little strips of red.
🇧🇹 Bhutan has a tan flag.
🇪🇷 Eritrea? More like Erit-red-a!
🇸🇿 Eswatini? More like Eswa-teeny-tiny details.
🇫🇯 Fiji’s so blue, and for crosses, it’s got two.
🇰🇮 Kiri-karate: a bird high-kicks the sunrise.
🇲🇭 The spiky star is like a sheriff’s badge. Marshal → Marshall Islands
🇫🇲 Four tiny stars on a big empty sea → Micronesia.
🇳🇷 One line, one star, one tiny island: Nauru.
🇱🇨 Twin peaks rise from the blue. Hallelujah, Saint Lucia!
🇻🇨 Three green diamonds make a V for Vincent.
🇸🇨 “Seychelles!” I yell from around the bend. Stripes flare wide like a megaphone’s end.
🇹🇴 Tonga’s tongue-red and its cross looks like a T.
🇻🇺 A sideways Y in a golden tutu is Vanuatu!
🇼🇸 Roast some s’mores in Samoa under the stars.
🇸🇳 Senegal → cene-gal → center gold
🇦🇴 That machete is going to make you sing and go “la!” And-go-la → Angola
🇲🇶 The red-green-black one is unique → Martinique.
🇳🇺 A Union Jack on a sea of yellow? That’s something Niue (new).
🇾🇪 Yemen sounds like ramen. Three stripes, plain as unseasoned ramen.
🇲🇸 The Irish lady with her harp: Montserrat.
🇲🇩 MOO-ldova: there’s an ox head on the crest.
🇹🇨 The lobster flag: Turks and Caicos.
🇸🇰 Slovakia has a bold and stocky emblem, Slovakia stockia.
🇧🇭 White lightning! Thunder! Bah… rain.
🇲🇬 A white gas pump filling a red-and-green gas car → Mada-gas-car.
🇳🇦 A sun blazes over a red road running corner to corner: Namibia.
🇧🇮 Three cherries on the Burundi sundae.
🇹🇰 Row, row, row to Tokelau. A gold sail under the stars.
🇹🇻 Tuvalu’s nine stars map its nine islands.
🇳🇨 The totem spire is New Caledonia.
🇸🇮 Slovenia’s emblem veers off to the top.
🇲🇱 A green, gold, and red-hot tamale, it’s Mali.
🇸🇷 A gold star walks the red carpet, surely you know its name.
🇦🇼 Aruba’s got a ruby star on Caribbean blue.
🇸🇴 So blue, Somalia.
🇬🇲 The blue stripe is the Gambia River, flowing between the sun (red) and the land (green).

Posted Aug 3, 2026, 1:51 PM UTC

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