Random Country Generator: Spin for One of 195 Countries
Spin the wheel for one of 195 countries, shown with its flag. Pick the continents you want, tick countries off, and spin again as often as you like.
The random country generator picks one country from a wheel of 195 and shows its flag and name. Press Spin, click the wheel, or press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on a Mac). Every country has the same chance, 1 in 195 on the full wheel.
You can narrow the wheel to one or more continents, tick single countries off, or switch on Elimination so each country can win only once. A result is the name and the flag only: the tool shows no capital, population or other facts.
How to spin a random country
- Choose where from. In the Entries tab, leave All Countries on or press one or more continents under Regions. On phones and tablets the same buttons sit under the Spin button.
- Press Spin, click the wheel, or press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on a Mac). The wheel turns for about 5 seconds. Fast (about 3 seconds) and Slow (about 7 seconds) are under Spin length in the Spin tab (on phones, Settings in the bottom bar, then Spin).
- Read the Your country card. It shows the flag and the name. Spin again draws again, Remove winner takes that country off the wheel, and Share result sends the result and a link to this page through your device's share menu, or copies them to the clipboard.
Which 195 countries are on the wheel
The wheel holds 195 countries: the 193 member states of the United Nations plus the two UN observer states, the Holy See (shown as Vatican City) and Palestine. The number 195 is a convention, not an official UN count, and other lists differ. Some generators reach 250 entries or more by adding territories. This one does not.
Continents follow the UN's geographic regions, with the Americas split into North and South America. That settles the border cases.
| Region | Countries | Border cases |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | 44 | Russia counts as Europe. Vatican City is here. |
| Asia | 48 | Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Palestine count as Asia. |
| Africa | 54 | Egypt counts as Africa. |
| North America | 23 | Central America and the Caribbean count as North America. |
| South America | 12 | All 12 countries of the continent. |
| Oceania | 14 | Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific island countries. |
Pick a continent or skip countries
From All Countries, a continent button narrows the wheel to that continent. Each further button adds a continent, and pressing a chosen one removes it. The last continent stays on, and All Countries brings the full wheel back. Europe and Asia together make a wheel of 92 countries (44 and 48).
- Find a country searches the list by name.
- Untick a country to take it off the wheel. Tick all and Untick all work on the countries in the list. The line above the list counts them, for example "92 of 92 ticked".
- Show on the wheel chooses what each slice displays: Flag + name, Flag only or Name only.
Changing a continent or a tick rebuilds the wheel from the list, so anything you typed into the entries by hand is replaced. Set the continents and ticks first, then add your own entries.
What you can read on the wheel
Slices get thinner as countries are added. On a screen 1,280 pixels wide, the wheel for each of the six continents (12 to 54 countries) showed a flag and a name on every slice. A few long names are cut short with three dots, for example Equatorial Guinea, and the result card always shows the full name. With all 195 countries the slices are too thin for names: only small flags show along the rim, and Name only leaves the slices blank. On a phone about 390 pixels wide, the 12 countries of South America and the 23 of North America still showed names.
If a group needs to read the wheel, choose a continent first. If you only need the answer, the result card has it.
Normal, Elimination and Accumulation
The Spin tab has a Mode setting with three choices. On phones, open Settings in the bottom bar and then Spin.
- Normal. Every country stays on the wheel. Each spin is independent, so the next spin repeats the last country 1 time in 195 on the full wheel, about 0.5 percent.
- Elimination. Each winner leaves the wheel when you close its card. The top of the panel counts what is left, for example "Elimination · 194 left". When one country is left, the wheel shows "All done!" and a Reset wheel? button that puts the removed countries back.
- Accumulation. Wins are counted for each country, and the Results tab shows a leaderboard with Reset counts.
The Results tab keeps a history of the last 50 spins, newest first, with Copy results and Clear.
Is the draw fair?
Each country on the wheel has the same chance. The browser's cryptographic random number generator picks the winning country first, and the wheel then turns to land on it, so how hard you click or where the wheel started does not change the result. Weights, a button in the Entries panel, can make some entries more likely, and it is off until you turn it on.
Chance still produces runs. Two countries from the same continent in a row is ordinary, and in Normal mode the same country can win twice in a row.
Where it helps
- Research assignments. A teacher with 28 students switches to Elimination and spins 28 times. Each winner leaves the wheel, so no country is given twice. The Results tab lists them, and Copy results puts one per line on the clipboard, newest first.
- Quiz rounds. The wheel picks the country, and your group supplies the question: its capital, its continent, where it sits on a wall map, or one fact to look up. Switch on Mystery result and the card stays on a question mark until you press Reveal answer, so the class can guess the continent first. Mystery wheel puts a question mark on every slice and hides the flags.
- A shortlist to read about. Switch to Elimination and spin five times to get five different countries. Treat them as prompts for reading, not as advice about where to go.
- Group games. Split the class into research groups with the Random Team Generator, pick who answers with the Random Name Picker, or draw a starting letter with the Random Letter Generator and ask for a country that begins with it.
A country picker wheel for your own shortlist
To spin among a few countries you choose, press Untick all under Countries, then tick only the ones you want. Each tick puts that country, with its flag, on the wheel. For names that are not on the list, type them into Add a country or paste a list into Bulk edit. A country you add yourself appears as a name with no flag. One wheel holds up to 1,000 entries.
Add your own entries last. Changing the continents or the ticks afterward replaces them with the ticked list.
What this generator does not do
- It shows a country's name and flag only. There is no capital, population, language or map.
- The list is the 195 countries above. Taiwan, Kosovo and territories are not on it unless you add them yourself.
- Your own entries are replaced when you change the continents or ticks.
- With all 195 countries on the wheel, names do not fit on the slices.
- One spin gives one country. For several different ones, switch to Elimination and spin again.
- In Normal mode a country can come up twice in a row.
Other wheels for related jobs
- To pick one person, use the Random Name Picker.
- To split a group into teams, use the Random Team Generator.
- To draw a letter, use the Random Letter Generator.
- For a draw from any list you write yourself, use Spin the Wheel.
Frequently asked questions
195: the 193 member states of the United Nations plus the two UN observer states, the Holy See (shown as Vatican City) and Palestine. The list has no territories.
Yes. Choose Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America or Oceania, or several of them. Central America and the Caribbean count as North America, Russia counts as Europe, and Turkey and Cyprus count as Asia.
Yes. It is a wheel with countries on its slices that stops on one and shows its flag and name. To pick from your own shortlist, press Untick all and tick only the countries you want.
Yes. Each country on the wheel has the same chance, 1 in 195 on the full wheel. The browser's cryptographic random number generator picks the winning country first, and the wheel then turns to land on it. Weights are off until you turn them on, and in Normal mode the same country can win twice in a row.
In Normal mode, yes, because every spin is independent. Switch the Mode in the Spin tab (on phones, under Settings) to Elimination and each winner leaves the wheel, so every country can win only once until you reset it.
On the result card, Share result sends the country and a link to this page through your device's share menu, or copies them to the clipboard. Save and share can also save the wheel as a link, download a PNG of the wheel, or give you an embed code.
No. A result shows the country's name and flag only. For a capitals quiz, the teacher or the group supplies the answer.
The list follows UN membership and observer status, which gives 195 countries. That is a choice of list, not a view on any dispute. You can type any name into Add a country, and it appears as a plain name with no flag.
With all 195 countries the slices are too thin for names, so only small flags show. Choose a continent: wheels of 12 to 54 countries showed flags and names on a screen 1,280 pixels wide. The result card always shows the full name.