The world's flags given letter grades

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Bad Colours

Eyewatering

Burkina Faso

C+ 64 / 100

Corporate Logo

Too many stars

Too busy

Bosnia and Herzegovina

C+ 64 / 100

Plagiarism

Graven Images

Too busy

Ecuador

C+ 64 / 100

The Columbian flag was not very good to begin with, fine effort from Ecuador making it worse.


Plagiarism

Bad Colours

Eyewatering

Bangladesh

C+ 60 / 100

Eyewatering

Greenland

C+ 60 / 100

Possibly most eyewatering flag in existence.


Bad Colours

Georgia

C+ 60 / 100

Good Colours

Graven Images

Egypt

C+ 60 / 100

Too many stars

Too busy

United States

C+ 60 / 100

If one is good, fifty must be just right.


Eyewatering

Algeria

C+ 60 / 100

Too busy

Mongolia

C+ 60 / 100

Corporate Logo

Good Shape

Nauru

C+ 60 / 100

Good Colours

Graven Images

Too busy

Vanuatu

C+ 60 / 100

Bad Shape

Original

Nepal

C+ 60 / 100

Bad Colours

Bulgaria

C+ 60 / 100

Possibly worst traditional tricolour.


Plagiarism

Palau

C+ 60 / 100

Too busy

South Korea

C+ 60 / 100

Looks good on a T-shirt, not on a flag.


Weapons

Writing!

Graven Images

Saudi Arabia

C+ 60 / 100

Bad Colours

Eritrea

C+ 60 / 100

Original

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

C+ 60 / 100

Looks unfortunately like a target.

Samoa

C+ 60 / 100

Corporate Logo

Kyrgyzstan

C 57 / 100

Is that a tennis ball on this flag?


Weapons

Graven Images

Afghanistan

C 56 / 100

This is the flag used in Afghanistan before the Russian invasion (and now used by the Northern Alliance). The Taliban flag was naver recognised by the UN (it is black and white with writing on it, and would receive a much lower grade).

Liechtenstein

C 56 / 100

Too many stars

Too busy

Uzbekistan

C 56 / 100

Graven Images

Myanmar (Burma)

C 55 / 100

Colonial Nonsense

Too many stars

Cook Islands

C 55 / 100

Weapons

Eyewatering

Too busy

Kenya

C 55 / 100

Weapons

Lesotho

C 55 / 100

Graven Images

Gibraltar

C 55 / 100

Nice lack of colonial nonsense for a UK territory. Still too many graven images, though.


Plagiarism

Writing!

Good Colours

Iraq

C 55 / 100

Best features of this flag stolen from Syria.


Too many stars

Philippines

C 55 / 100

Too busy

Slovenia

C 55 / 100

Weapons

Bad Colours

Oman

C 55 / 100

Colonial Nonsense

Too many stars

Australia

C 55 / 100

Colonial Nonsense

New Zealand

C 55 / 100

Too busy

Antigua and Barbuda

C 55 / 100

Too busy

Costa Rica

C 55 / 100

Graven Images

Cambodia

C 55 / 100

Graven Images

Lebanon

C 55 / 100

Too busy

Ethiopia

C 55 / 100

Too busy

Croatia

C 55 / 100

Corporate Logo

Eyewatering

Cape Verde

C 55 / 100

Bad Shape

Graven Images

Too busy

Moldova, Republic of

C 55 / 100

Weapons

Graven Images

Too busy

Swaziland

C 55 / 100

Too busy

French Polynesia

C- 54 / 100

Too busy

Andorra

C- 53 / 100

Too busy

Malaysia

C- 52 / 100

Graven Images

Too busy

Mexico

C- 52 / 100

Bad Colours

Too busy

Makes me nauseous

Seychelles

C- 50 / 100

Urrgh... ohhh... feel sick...


Bad Colours

Makes me nauseous

Mauritius

C- 50 / 100

"Hey, lots of countries have a tricolour, why don't we have a quadricolour?" Big mistake.


Original

Too busy

Central African Republic

C- 50 / 100

Do not attempt to disprove the four-colour theorem on your flag! (This goes for you, too, Mauritius).


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