Learn All 54 African Flags and Their Capitals with One Flashcard Deck
Memorize the 54 flags of Africa and their capitals: pan-African tricolour tricks, emblem anchors, and the capitals that are not the biggest city, from Abuja to Dodoma.
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Fifty-four sovereign states, fifty-four flags, and a surprising number of them built from the same three colours. The Flags: Africa deck on Flip It (deck code KU6374, 54 cards) shows you the flag on the front and asks for the country on the back — with the capital city tucked into the hint, so every card quietly teaches two facts.
Study this deck: Flags: Africa
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Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
How a card works
The front is the flag image alone, no text. Flip it and you get the country name, plus a hint line with the capital. Here is what the back of ten cards reveals:
| Flag you see | Country | Capital (hint) |
|---|---|---|
| Green and white halves, red crescent and star | Algeria | Algiers |
| Black, red and green with a Maasai shield and spears | Kenya | Nairobi |
| Green, yellow and red bands with a blue disc and star | Ethiopia | Addis Ababa |
| Red, yellow and green with a black star | Ghana | Accra |
| Green-white-green vertical bands | Nigeria | Abuja |
| Red field with a green five-pointed star | Morocco | Rabat |
| Six-colour Y-shaped design | South Africa | Bloemfontein (judicial), Cape Town (legislative), Pretoria (administrative) |
| Black, yellow and red stripes with a grey crowned crane | Uganda | Kampala |
| Five oblique bands radiating from the hoist | Seychelles | Victoria |
| Blue, yellow and green with a golden sun | Rwanda | Kigali |
All 54 countries in the deck
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Capitals worth a second look, because they are not the biggest city: Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast), Abuja (Nigeria), Porto-Novo (Benin), Dodoma (Tanzania, with Dar es Salaam as seat of government), Gitega (Burundi), Lilongwe (Malawi), and the twin capitals Lobamba and Mbabane (Eswatini).
Where the deck gets hard — and how to beat it
Sort the pan-African tricolours first. Green, yellow and red appear on Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo and more. Memorise the layout, not the palette: Mali is green-yellow-red vertical; Guinea is the same flag mirrored (red-yellow-green); Senegal is Mali plus a green star; Cameroon is green-red-yellow with a yellow star; Ghana is horizontal with a black star. Once you can separate these five, the rest of the set feels easy.
Use the emblem as the anchor. Many African flags carry one object that no other flag has — Kenya's shield, Uganda's crane, Zimbabwe's bird, Lesotho's black mokorotlo hat, Angola's machete and cogwheel, Mozambique's rifle and book, Cape Verde's ring of ten stars, Egypt's golden eagle. Say the object out loud when you flip the card; the country name attaches to it far more reliably than to a colour order.
Flags are visual, so run this deck in short daily sessions rather than one long one — 54 images in a row blur together, 15 at a time stay distinct.
For the history behind the borders you are memorising, the African Kingdoms & Colonization study guide covers the Berlin Conference and the Year of Africa that produced most of these flags.
Open Flip It, look up KU6374 (Flags: Africa) in the library, and start with the tricolour cluster.
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