Globalio is a free flag and geography game made by Sean Joudrie, an independent developer in the United States who loves flags.
It started as a way to learn every country's flag and grew into something much bigger. Today Globalio covers the flags of all 197 countries, 1,577 state, province and regional flags, 477 historical states and empires, and 373 identity flags, including pride flags, indigenous and ethnic flags, separatist movements and micronations.
Every entry was researched by hand, cross-checking Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, official government websites and the flag community to find the correct, current version of each flag, and to write a short description of what it means and where it came from.
Play 51 games. Quizzes, drawing and colouring games, lookalike spotting, map and border puzzles, a language game and daily challenges. Each one teaches something different.
Read the archive. Every country page tells the story of that country's flags through history. The historical and identity archives cover flags you won't find on a list of countries.
Each country page brings together the current flag, a note on what its colours and symbols mean, the flags that flew there before it, the historical states that once covered its land, its territories and its regional flags. The descriptions are written for Globalio, and facts are checked against Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and official government sources. Where a meaning is only traditional or popular rather than official, the page says so.
Flag images come from Wikimedia Commons and are served from Globalio's own server, so pages load quickly and don't break when a file is renamed upstream. The archive grows every month; the what's new page lists each change.
Some historical flags belonged to regimes responsible for war, slavery or genocide, and a few, such as the Nazi swastika flag and the Confederate battle flag, are used as hate symbols today. They appear only in their historical context, with notes that say what they stood for, and pages that show them carry no advertising. Identity and separatist flags are described, not endorsed.
We do our best to get every flag, name and date right, but we're not an official reference and mistakes can slip through. If you spot one, please let us know and we'll fix it.
Globalio is free, with no account or sign-up, and your progress is saved only on your own device. Ads from Google help cover its running costs. See the privacy policy for details.
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