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Random Country Generator
This random country generator spins a wheel of flags to pick a random country from the 173 countries and territories in the Travle game. Use it as a random country picker for homework, quizzes or travel ideas: every spin lands on a flag, and the result shows the country's capital, continent and population with a link to its full guide.
Spin the wheel of flags
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How to use the random country generator
1. Spin the wheel
Press Spin. The wheel turns for a few seconds and stops with one country under the pointer. You will hear a click for each flag that passes; press «Sound on» to mute it.
2. Read the result
Below the wheel you get the flag, the country name, its capital, its continent and its population (2025, World Bank), so it also works as a country flag generator and a capital city generator.
3. Load new countries
The flag wheel holds 12 countries at a time. Press «Load 12 new countries» to fill it with another random set from the list.
4. Open the country guide
«Explore» takes you to the country's guide: map, neighbours, languages, currency, climate, UNESCO sites and more.
5. Narrow it by continent
«Spin» plus the continent name opens a wheel with only that continent's countries.
Spin a random country by continent
Prefer to stay in one part of the world? Each continent has its own wheel with the same sound, flags and results.
Africa wheel
50 countries and territories · 2.0% chance each
Asia wheel
46 countries and territories · 2.2% chance each
Europe wheel
39 countries and territories · 2.6% chance each
North America wheel
18 countries and territories · 5.6% chance each
South America wheel
13 countries and territories · 7.7% chance each
Oceania wheel
7 countries and territories · 14.3% chance each
Which countries the random country picker uses
The wheel uses the 173 countries and territories of the Travle game, grouped into continents with Natural Earth data. Some entries are territories rather than sovereign states, and Kosovo appears with the code XK. Open a continent to see its countries.
Africa (50)
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Asia (46)
Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
Europe (39)
Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
North America (18)
Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greenland, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, United States
South America (13)
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
Oceania (7)
Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
Eight things to do with a random country
Geography homework
Give each student a different country from the wheel and ask for its capital, neighbours and one fact from its country guide.
Travel bucket list
Spin a few times and keep the countries you would actually visit. The country guide shows the best time of year and the main sights.
Quiz night
Turn it into a random country quiz: spin, show the flag only and let the room guess the country. Then ask for the capital to break ties.
Cooking challenge
Cook something from the country you land on. A weekly spin turns into a small tour of world food.
Writing prompts
Set a short story, a postcard or a news report in the random country. It works for language classes too.
Map practice
Find the country on the 3D world map before you open its guide, then name the countries around it.
Language sampling
Look up the official languages of the country and learn to say hello and thank you in one of them.
Settle a decision
Can't pick a theme for a party, a film night or a team name? Let the wheel choose a country and build around it.
Is the random country generator fair?
Equal odds
The countries on the wheel and the winner are chosen with your browser's secure random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues). Each country has about a 0.58% chance per spin, and all slices are the same size.
No repeats in a row
The country you just got is left out of the next spin, so pressing Spin twice always gives a new result.
The result is decided before the wheel stops
The animation only shows the pick. Stopping the page or changing the speed of your device does not change it.
Works on any screen
The wheel works on phones, tablets and shared classroom screens, with keyboard controls and reduced motion support.
Random country facts
- 173countries and territories on the wheel
- 0.58%chance for each country per spin
- 8,168,770,139people in all of them (2025)
- 50countries in Africa, the most of any continent
Largest country you can land on
Russia: 17,125,190 km² (2024)Smallest
Luxembourg: 2,590 km²Most people
India: 1,463,865,525Fewest people
Greenland: 56,831
Where to go after a spin
Play Travle
Use your random country as a start and find the shortest chain of neighbouring countries to a target.
Travle Hints
See the land neighbours and shortest routes of any country.
Capital City Quiz
Match countries and capitals, worldwide or by continent.
Flag Quiz
Guess the country from its flag.
Find a Flag
Filter flags by colours, symbols and patterns.
3D World Map
Spin a globe and click any country to open its guide.
All countries A–Z
The full list with capitals, population and area.
Countries by continent
Six continents, each with its own country wheel.
Random country generator: frequently asked questions
How does the random country generator work?
The wheel shows 12 countries taken at random from the 173 countries and territories in the Travle game. When you press Spin, one of those 12 is picked with the same chance as the others, and the wheel stops on it.
Is every country equally likely?
Yes. The 12 countries on the wheel are a random sample of the whole list and the winner is a random pick among them, so every country has the same chance: about 0.58% per spin. The only exception is that the result you just got is not picked twice in a row.
What does «Load 12 new countries» do?
It replaces the countries on the wheel with 12 different ones taken at random from the list. Use it if you want to see other flags before spinning.
Can I spin only countries from one continent?
Yes. There is one wheel for each continent: Africa (50), Asia (46), Europe (39), North America (18), South America (13), Oceania (7). The links are below the wheel.
How many countries are on the wheel?
173, the same list used by the Travle game. It includes some territories, such as Greenland and Puerto Rico, and Kosovo with its user-assigned code XK, so it is not a count of UN member states.
Can I turn the sound off?
Yes. Press «Sound on» to switch it off. The wheel remembers your choice in this browser. If your device asks for reduced motion, the wheel shows the result without the spinning animation.
What can I do with the result?
Open the country guide to see its capital, map, neighbours, languages, currency and main sights, spin the wheel of its continent, or use it as the start country for a game of Travle.
Is the random country picker free?
Yes. It is free to use, works on phones and computers and needs no sign-up.
Sources: country list from the Travle game; continents and capitals from Natural Earth (public domain); population (2025) and surface area (2024) from the World Bank; flags from Flagpedia (public domain).