Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- CANTON
- The canton is the upper-left rectangle of a flag, the spot reserved for a nation's most important symbol, like the stars on the U.S. flag or the Union Jack on Australia's.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CRESCENT
- The crescent moon appears on the flags of more than two dozen countries, most famously Turkey, whose red-and-white banner has flown in its current form since 1844.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DRAGON
- Wales is the only country in the United Kingdom whose national flag features a dragon, a red one, known as Y Ddraig Goch, on a green-and-white field.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- MAPLE
- Canada's iconic maple leaf flag was officially adopted on February 15, 1965, replacing a design that had incorporated Britain's Union Jack.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Flags of the World: a free online word search
Flags of the World word search, free to print on a clean sheet, from France's tricolor to Texas's lone star and the rest waiting quietly on the page.
About Flags of the World
Every nation tells its story in cloth and color. A red crescent curves on white, a golden dragon breathes across crimson silk, a maple leaf blazes on a field of white flanked by red. These banners carry centuries of history, battles won, alliances struck, ideals stitched into every stripe and canton. To look closely at a flag is to read a people's deepest convictions, rendered in the simplest visual language on earth.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps, never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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