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Argentine Province Flags Quiz

The flags of Argentina's twenty-three provinces and the city of Buenos Aires on a flat map — from the orange and blue of Tierra del Fuego to the suns borrowed from the national flag. Click a province or drag the flag onto it: three tries per flag, then the map shows the answer. Two names, two hints and two skips are free for the round.

Drag the flag onto a province, or click the province. Name shows the province the flag belongs to, Hint opens all three facts about it; after three misses, or Skip, the map places it for you. Scroll or pinch to zoom in.

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Argentine Province Flags Quiz

Drag the flags of Argentina's 23 provinces and the city of Buenos Aires onto a flat map of Argentina, three tries each. No labels.

Old provinces, young flags

Argentina's provinces are old; their flags are not. Fourteen existed when the constitution of 1853 was written, yet almost every flag here dates from after 1983, the last three from Tucumán and Córdoba in 2010 and Catamarca in 2011. Three are older than the republic. Mendoza flies the flag of the Army of the Andes, made in Mendoza for San Martín's crossing of 1817: white over light blue with the national arms, nearly square. Jujuy flies the white flag with the same arms that Manuel Belgrano presented to the province in 1813. Tucumán's white, light blue and white follows the Macha flag, one of the two oldest surviving flags of Belgrano's Army of the North.

The sun of May, seven times over

The national flag's sun turns up again and again. Córdoba is plainest: an ochre sun with wavy rays on upright red, white and light blue. Santa Fe has the same stripes but fills the middle with a yellow oval reading Provincia Invencible de Santa Fe around two crossed arrows and a lance. Santiago del Estero sets a sun with a cross inside on a broad red band between white and light blue. Chaco puts a sun above a plough ringed with stars on green, white and light blue. Catamarca has a sun between olive branches on a field quartered light blue, white and red inside a gold border. Salta frames a sun inside a white six-pointed star on a light blue oval ringed by twenty-three gold stars, on the wine-red and black of the poncho of Güemes's gauchos. Buenos Aires Province shows a sun rising from a red half-disc inside a blue cogwheel on blue over green, a design chosen in 1997 from school entries.

Federal red and the national blue

Two flags carry the federalist red diagonal. Entre Ríos is light blue, white and light blue with a red band falling from the upper hoist, after the flag of José Artigas's Federal League; La Rioja is white over blue with a red band rising from the lower hoist and a green wreath in the middle. Misiones stacks red over dark blue over white, like Serbia's flag. San Juan, La Pampa and Corrientes are all blue, white and blue with central arms: a red cap of liberty on a pole before mountains for San Juan, a lone tree and a horseman with a lance for La Pampa, and for Corrientes a white triangle at the hoist and the words Patria, Libertad, Constitución. Neuquén turns the stripes upright behind a dark araucaria under an arc of gold stars. Río Negro is blue, white and green with a black canton of thirteen white stars; Formosa drops a white wedge from the top of a light blue field, with nine gold stars and a line of green arrowheads.

Patagonia, and four flags that are only arms

Tierra del Fuego is orange at the hoist and blue at the fly, split by a white albatross, with the Southern Cross in the blue. Santa Cruz has a sun rising behind a snow-capped brown peak, the Southern Cross beside it, over indigo waves. Chubut draws the white line of the Andes across the top, sunrays behind a blue cogwheel holding an ear of wheat, white waves below. Buenos Aires City is white with a shield: a crowned black eagle, a red cross above it and four eaglets beneath, arms from the city's second founding in 1580. San Luis is white too, with an oval of orange hills under a sun and two deer on a meadow, inside a laurel wreath.

Where the confusion lies

Santa Fe and Córdoba: identical upright stripes, and only Santa Fe has the oval. Entre Ríos has three stripes and its red band falls from the hoist; La Rioja's rises and carries the wreath. Of the four white flags, Mendoza has a light blue lower half, Jujuy the sun over its oval, Buenos Aires City the eagle, San Luis the wreath. Tucumán alone has white outside and blue in the middle.

All 24 provinces and their capitals

24 provinces are on this map, listed in alphabetical order with their capitals — the same facts the Hint button draws on. All of them are in the deck.

  1. Buenos AiresBuenos Aires
  2. Buenos Aires ProvinceLa Plata
  3. CatamarcaSan Fernando del Valle de Catamarca
  4. ChacoResistencia
  5. ChubutRawson
  6. CórdobaCórdoba
  7. CorrientesCorrientes
  8. Entre RíosParaná
  9. FormosaFormosa
  10. JujuySan Salvador de Jujuy
  11. La PampaSanta Rosa
  12. La RiojaLa Rioja
  13. MendozaMendoza
  14. MisionesPosadas
  15. NeuquénNeuquén
  16. Río NegroViedma
  17. SaltaSalta
  18. San JuanSan Juan
  19. San LuisSan Luis
  20. Santa CruzRío Gallegos
  21. Santa FeSanta Fe
  22. Santiago del EsteroSantiago del Estero
  23. Tierra del FuegoUshuaia
  24. TucumánSan Miguel de Tucumán

Questions about these flags

Which Argentine provincial flags come from the wars of independence?

Three. Mendoza flies the flag of the Army of the Andes, made in Mendoza in 1817 and carried across the mountains by San Martín. Jujuy flies the white flag with the national arms that Manuel Belgrano presented to the province in 1813. Tucumán's white, light blue and white follows the Macha flag, one of the oldest surviving flags of Belgrano's Army of the North, adopted by the province in 2010.

What is the difference between the two Buenos Aires flags?

The province and the city are separate units with separate flags. Buenos Aires Province is blue over green with a thin red line between, and a sun rising from a red half-disc inside a blue cogwheel. The city of Buenos Aires, the federal capital, is white with a shield of a crowned black eagle, a red cross and four eaglets. The city is the small unit on the river.

Which provincial flags use stars to count their departments?

Río Negro's black canton holds thirteen white stars, one for each of its thirteen departments. Formosa's white wedge holds nine gold stars for nine departments, and Salta rings its oval with twenty-three gold stars for twenty-three. Chaco's plough sits inside a ring of stars and Neuquén's araucaria under an arc of them, while Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz use their stars differently, as the Southern Cross.

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