Random Nationality Generator: 195 Demonyms With Flag and Languages

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Random Nationality Generator: 195 Demonyms With Flag and Languages

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Random Nationality Generator: 195 Demonyms With Flag and Languages: how it works

This random nationality generator holds 195 words: one for each of the 193 United Nations member states and the two observer states. Each card shows the flag, the country, what the people are called and the official languages. Filter by continent or language, or hide the countries and guess.

The word on each card is a demonym

A demonym names people by place. The term is young: it first appears in a 1988 book by George Scheetz, and Paul Dickson's Labels for Locals spread it in 1997. On this list 21 words end in -ese, which came through Italian from Latin -ensis, and 17 take the ending -i, from Iraqi to Pakistani. Some countries need two words: Spanish is the adjective, a Spaniard is the person. Ni-Vanuatu, I-Kiribati and Basotho follow no English pattern at all.

Nationality is a legal status, not an ancestry

Nationality is the legal status of belonging to a state, and Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says everyone has the right to one. It says nothing about ancestry, belief or mother tongue. Thai can mean any citizen of Thailand or a member of the Thai people, and this list uses the first sense. So pick a language they speak separately.

Tips

  • For a quiz round, tap Africa, draw 10 and press Hide all countries. Burkinabe, Malagasy and Ivorian are harder than they sound.
  • Nigerien goes with Niger and Nigerian with Nigeria, and the two Dominicans differ in stress: dom-in-EE-kan for Dominica, do-MIN-i-kan for the Dominican Republic.
  • Tap Africa and Portuguese and six cards are left, from Angolan to São Toméan. Mali has 13 official languages, and French stopped being one in 2023.

Questions and answers

Why 195 nationalities and not more?

The list follows the United Nations: 193 member states plus two observer states, the Holy See and Palestine. Scottish, Puerto Rican and Greenlandic are real demonyms too, but they sit outside that list.

Is the word on the card an adjective or a noun?

The big word is the everyday demonym, usually the adjective, the one you put before passport. The line under it gives the noun for the people where it differs: Danish and Danes, Polish and Poles. New Zealander and Solomon Islander are words for a person, since the usual adjective there is the country name itself.

Why do some cards say no official language?

Because some countries never named one in law. The United Kingdom, Australia and Uruguay run on custom, and the language chips file them under the language in use. Others name many: Bolivia has 37, Zimbabwe 16 and South Africa 12. Niger replaced French with Hausa in 2025.

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All 195 nationalities

Africa 54

  • Algerian From Algeria. The people are Algerians. Official languages: Arabic and Tamazight.
  • Angolan From Angola. The people are Angolans. Official language: Portuguese.
  • Basotho From Lesotho. One citizen is a Mosotho, and the people are Basotho. Official languages: Sesotho and English.
  • Beninese From Benin. The people are the Beninese. Official language: French.
  • Bissau-Guinean From Guinea-Bissau. The people are Bissau-Guineans. Official language: Portuguese.
  • Botswanan From Botswana. One citizen is a Motswana, and the people are Batswana. Official language: English.
  • Burkinabe From Burkina Faso. Official languages: Mooré, Bissa, Dyula and Fula. French is now a working language.
  • Burundian From Burundi. The people are Burundians. Official languages: Kirundi, French and English.
  • Cabo Verdean From Cabo Verde. The people are Cabo Verdeans. Official language: Portuguese.
  • Cameroonian From Cameroon. The people are Cameroonians. Official languages: French and English.
  • Central African From the Central African Republic. The people are Central Africans. Official languages: Sango and French.
  • Chadian From Chad. The people are Chadians. Official languages: French and Arabic.
  • Comorian From the Comoros. The people are Comorians. Official languages: Comorian, French and Arabic.
  • Congolese (DR Congo) From the Democratic Republic of the Congo, capital Kinshasa. Official language: French.
  • Congolese (Republic of the Congo) From the Republic of the Congo, capital Brazzaville, not DR Congo. Official language: French.
  • Djiboutian From Djibouti. The people are Djiboutians. Official languages: Arabic and French.
  • Egyptian From Egypt. The people are Egyptians. Official language: Arabic.
  • Equatoguinean From Equatorial Guinea. The people are Equatoguineans. Official languages: Spanish, French and Portuguese.
  • Eritrean From Eritrea. The people are Eritreans. No official language. Tigrinya is the most widely spoken.
  • Ethiopian From Ethiopia. Official languages: Amharic, Oromo, Somali, Tigrinya and Afar.
  • Gabonese From Gabon. The people are the Gabonese. Official language: French.
  • Gambian From the Gambia. The people are Gambians. Official language: English.
  • Ghanaian From Ghana. The people are Ghanaians. Official language: English.
  • Guinean From Guinea. Since 2025, eight national languages, Susu and Fulani among them, are official beside French.
  • Ivorian From Ivory Coast, which goes by Côte d'Ivoire at the UN. The people are Ivorians. Official language: French.
  • Kenyan From Kenya. The people are Kenyans. Official languages: Swahili and English.
  • Liberian From Liberia. The people are Liberians. Official language: English.
  • Libyan From Libya. The people are Libyans. Official language: Arabic.
  • Malagasy From Madagascar. The people are the Malagasy. Official languages: Malagasy and French.
  • Malawian From Malawi. The people are Malawians. Official language: English.
  • Malian From Mali. Thirteen national languages, Bambara among them, are official. French was dropped in 2023.
  • Mauritanian From Mauritania. The people are Mauritanians. Official language: Arabic.
  • Mauritian From Mauritius. The people are Mauritians. No official language in law. English and French are used.
  • Moroccan From Morocco. The people are Moroccans. Official languages: Arabic and Tamazight.
  • Mozambican From Mozambique. The people are Mozambicans. Official language: Portuguese.
  • Namibian From Namibia. The people are Namibians. Official language: English.
  • Nigerian From Nigeria, not Niger. The people are Nigerians. Official language: English.
  • Nigerien From Niger, not Nigeria. The people are Nigeriens. Hausa replaced French as the official language in 2025.
  • Rwandan From Rwanda. The people are Rwandans. Official languages: Kinyarwanda, English, French and Swahili.
  • São Toméan From São Tomé and Príncipe. The people are São Toméans. Official language: Portuguese.
  • Senegalese From Senegal. The people are the Senegalese. Official language: French.
  • Seychellois From the Seychelles. Official languages: Seychellois Creole, English and French.
  • Sierra Leonean From Sierra Leone. The people are Sierra Leoneans. Official language: English.
  • Somali From Somalia. The people are Somalis. Official languages: Somali and Arabic.
  • South African From South Africa, which has 12 official languages, among them Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans and English.
  • South Sudanese From South Sudan. The people are the South Sudanese. Official language: English.
  • Sudanese From Sudan. The people are the Sudanese. Official languages: Arabic and English.
  • Swazi From Eswatini. The people are Swazis. Official languages: Swazi and English.
  • Tanzanian From Tanzania. The people are Tanzanians. Official languages: Swahili and English.
  • Togolese From Togo. The people are the Togolese. Official language: French.
  • Tunisian From Tunisia. The people are Tunisians. Official language: Arabic.
  • Ugandan From Uganda. The people are Ugandans. Official languages: English and Swahili.
  • Zambian From Zambia. The people are Zambians. Official language: English.
  • Zimbabwean From Zimbabwe, which has 16 official languages. Shona, Ndebele and English are three of them.

Asia 48

  • Afghan From Afghanistan. The people are Afghans. Official languages: Pashto and Dari.
  • Armenian From Armenia. The people are Armenians. Official language: Armenian.
  • Azerbaijani From Azerbaijan. The people are Azerbaijanis. Official language: Azerbaijani.
  • Bahraini From Bahrain. The people are Bahrainis. Official language: Arabic.
  • Bangladeshi From Bangladesh. The people are Bangladeshis. Official language: Bengali.
  • Bhutanese From Bhutan. The people are the Bhutanese. Official language: Dzongkha.
  • Bruneian From Brunei. The people are Bruneians. Official language: Malay.
  • Burmese From Myanmar. The people are the Burmese. Official language: Burmese.
  • Cambodian From Cambodia. The people are Cambodians. Official language: Khmer.
  • Chinese From China. The people are the Chinese. Official language: Standard Chinese.
  • Cypriot From Cyprus. The people are Cypriots. Official languages: Greek and Turkish.
  • Emirati From the United Arab Emirates. The people are Emiratis. Official language: Arabic.
  • Filipino From the Philippines. The people are Filipinos. Official languages: Filipino and English.
  • Georgian From Georgia. The people are Georgians. Official language: Georgian.
  • Indian From India. The people are Indians. Official languages: Hindi and English.
  • Indonesian From Indonesia. The people are Indonesians. Official language: Indonesian.
  • Iranian From Iran. The people are Iranians. Official language: Persian.
  • Iraqi From Iraq. The people are Iraqis. Official languages: Arabic and Kurdish.
  • Israeli From Israel. The people are Israelis. Official language: Hebrew. Arabic has a special status.
  • Japanese From Japan. The people are the Japanese. No official language in law. Japanese is the national language.
  • Jordanian From Jordan. The people are Jordanians. Official language: Arabic.
  • Kazakhstani From Kazakhstan. The people are Kazakhstanis. Official languages: Kazakh and Russian.
  • Kuwaiti From Kuwait. The people are Kuwaitis. Official language: Arabic.
  • Kyrgyzstani From Kyrgyzstan. The people are Kyrgyzstanis. Kyrgyz is the state language and Russian is official too.
  • Laotian From Laos. The people are Laotians. Official language: Lao.
  • Lebanese From Lebanon. The people are the Lebanese. Official language: Arabic.
  • Malaysian From Malaysia. The people are Malaysians. Official language: Malay.
  • Maldivian From the Maldives. The people are Maldivians. Official language: Dhivehi.
  • Mongolian From Mongolia. The people are Mongolians. Official language: Mongolian.
  • Nepali From Nepal. The people are Nepalis. Official language: Nepali.
  • North Korean From North Korea. The people are North Koreans. Official language: Korean.
  • Omani From Oman. The people are Omanis. Official language: Arabic.
  • Pakistani From Pakistan. The people are Pakistanis. Official languages: Urdu and English.
  • Palestinian From Palestine, one of two observer states at the UN. The people are Palestinians. Official language: Arabic.
  • Qatari From Qatar. The people are Qataris. Official language: Arabic.
  • Saudi From Saudi Arabia. The people are Saudis. Official language: Arabic.
  • Singaporean From Singapore. Official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil. Malay is the national language.
  • South Korean From South Korea. The people are South Koreans. Official languages: Korean and Korean Sign Language.
  • Sri Lankan From Sri Lanka. The people are Sri Lankans. Official languages: Sinhala and Tamil.
  • Syrian From Syria. The people are Syrians. Official language: Arabic.
  • Tajikistani From Tajikistan. The people are Tajikistanis. Official language: Tajik.
  • Thai From Thailand. The people are the Thai. Official language: Thai.
  • Timorese From Timor-Leste. The people are the Timorese. Official languages: Portuguese and Tetum.
  • Turkish From Turkey. The people are Turks. Official language: Turkish.
  • Turkmen From Turkmenistan. The people are Turkmens. Official language: Turkmen.
  • Uzbekistani From Uzbekistan. The people are Uzbekistanis. Official language: Uzbek.
  • Vietnamese From Vietnam. The people are the Vietnamese. Official language: Vietnamese.
  • Yemeni From Yemen. The people are Yemenis. Official language: Arabic.

Europe 44

  • Albanian From Albania. The people are Albanians. Official language: Albanian.
  • Andorran From Andorra. The people are Andorrans. Official language: Catalan.
  • Austrian From Austria. The people are Austrians. Official language: German.
  • Belarusian From Belarus. The people are Belarusians. Official languages: Belarusian and Russian.
  • Belgian From Belgium. The people are Belgians. Official languages: Dutch, French and German.
  • Bosnian or Herzegovinian From Bosnia and Herzegovina. No official language in law. Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are all used.
  • British From the United Kingdom. The people are Britons. No official language in law; English is used.
  • Bulgarian From Bulgaria. The people are Bulgarians. Official language: Bulgarian.
  • Croatian From Croatia. The people are Croats. Official language: Croatian.
  • Czech From the Czech Republic, also called Czechia. The people are Czechs. Official language: Czech.
  • Danish From Denmark. The people are Danes. Official language: Danish.
  • Dutch From the Netherlands. The people are the Dutch. Official language: Dutch.
  • Estonian From Estonia. The people are Estonians. Official language: Estonian.
  • Finnish From Finland. The people are Finns. Official languages: Finnish and Swedish.
  • French From France. The people are the French. Official language: French.
  • German From Germany. The people are Germans. Official language: German.
  • Greek From Greece. The people are Greeks. Official language: Greek.
  • Hungarian From Hungary. The people are Hungarians. Official language: Hungarian.
  • Icelandic From Iceland. The people are Icelanders. Official language: Icelandic.
  • Irish From Ireland. The people are the Irish. Official languages: Irish and English.
  • Italian From Italy. The people are Italians. Official language: Italian.
  • Latvian From Latvia. The people are Latvians. Official language: Latvian.
  • Liechtensteiner From Liechtenstein. The people are Liechtensteiners. Official language: German.
  • Lithuanian From Lithuania. The people are Lithuanians. Official language: Lithuanian.
  • Luxembourgish From Luxembourg, home of the Luxembourgers. National language: Luxembourgish, with French and German.
  • Macedonian From North Macedonia. The people are Macedonians. Official languages: Macedonian and Albanian.
  • Maltese From Malta. The people are the Maltese. Official languages: Maltese and English.
  • Moldovan From Moldova. The people are Moldovans. Official language: Romanian.
  • Monégasque From Monaco. The people are Monégasques. Official language: French.
  • Montenegrin From Montenegro. The people are Montenegrins. Official language: Montenegrin.
  • Norwegian From Norway. The people are Norwegians. Official languages: Norwegian and Sámi.
  • Polish From Poland. The people are Poles. Official language: Polish.
  • Portuguese From Portugal. The people are the Portuguese. Official language: Portuguese.
  • Romanian From Romania. The people are Romanians. Official language: Romanian.
  • Russian From Russia. The people are Russians. Official language: Russian.
  • Sammarinese From San Marino. The people are the Sammarinese. Official language: Italian.
  • Serbian From Serbia. The people are Serbs. Official language: Serbian.
  • Slovak From Slovakia. The people are Slovaks. Official language: Slovak.
  • Slovenian From Slovenia. The people are Slovenes. Official language: Slovene.
  • Spanish From Spain. The people are Spaniards. Official language: Spanish.
  • Swedish From Sweden. The people are Swedes. Official language: Swedish.
  • Swiss From Switzerland. The people are the Swiss. National languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh.
  • Ukrainian From Ukraine. The people are Ukrainians. Official language: Ukrainian.
  • Vatican From Vatican City, seat of the Holy See, a UN observer. No formal demonym. Languages: Italian and Latin.

North America 23

  • American From the United States. No federal law sets an official language; a 2025 executive order names English.
  • Antiguan or Barbudan From Antigua and Barbuda. English is official by custom, and the Cabinet added Spanish in May 2026.
  • Bahamian From the Bahamas. The people are Bahamians. Official language: English.
  • Barbadian From Barbados. The people are Barbadians, also called Bajans. Official language: English.
  • Belizean From Belize. The people are Belizeans. Official language: English.
  • Canadian From Canada. The people are Canadians. Official languages: English and French.
  • Costa Rican From Costa Rica. The people are Costa Ricans. Official language: Spanish.
  • Cuban From Cuba. The people are Cubans. Official language: Spanish.
  • Dominican (Dominica) From Dominica. Stressed dom-in-EE-kan, unlike the Dominican Republic's word. Official language: English.
  • Dominican (Dominican Republic) From the Dominican Republic, next to Haiti. Stressed do-MIN-i-kan. Official language: Spanish.
  • Grenadian From Grenada. The people are Grenadians. Official language: English.
  • Guatemalan From Guatemala. The people are Guatemalans. Official language: Spanish.
  • Haitian From Haiti. The people are Haitians. Official languages: French and Haitian Creole.
  • Honduran From Honduras. The people are Hondurans. Official language: Spanish.
  • Jamaican From Jamaica. The people are Jamaicans. Official language: English.
  • Kittitian or Nevisian From Saint Kitts and Nevis. Kittitian goes with Saint Kitts, Nevisian with Nevis. Official language: English.
  • Mexican From Mexico. Spanish is the main language, and 68 Indigenous languages are recognised as national.
  • Nicaraguan From Nicaragua. The people are Nicaraguans. Official language: Spanish.
  • Panamanian From Panama. The people are Panamanians. Official language: Spanish.
  • Saint Lucian From Saint Lucia. The people are Saint Lucians. Official language: English.
  • Salvadoran From El Salvador. The people are Salvadorans. Official language: Spanish.
  • Trinidadian or Tobagonian From Trinidad and Tobago. Often shortened to Trinbagonian or Trini. Official language: English.
  • Vincentian From Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The people are Vincentians. Official language: English.

South America 12

  • Argentine From Argentina. The people are Argentines or Argentinians. No official language in law; Spanish is used.
  • Bolivian From Bolivia, which has 37 official languages: Spanish and 36 Indigenous ones, such as Quechua.
  • Brazilian From Brazil. The people are Brazilians. Official language: Portuguese.
  • Chilean From Chile. The people are Chileans. National language: Spanish.
  • Colombian From Colombia. The people are Colombians. Official language: Spanish.
  • Ecuadorian From Ecuador. The people are Ecuadorians. Official language: Spanish.
  • Guyanese From Guyana. The people are the Guyanese. Official language: English.
  • Paraguayan From Paraguay. The people are Paraguayans. Official languages: Spanish and Guarani.
  • Peruvian From Peru. The people are Peruvians. Official language: Spanish, with Quechua and Aymara co-official.
  • Surinamese From Suriname. The people are Surinamers. Official language: Dutch.
  • Uruguayan From Uruguay. The people are Uruguayans. No official language in law. Spanish is used.
  • Venezuelan From Venezuela. The people are Venezuelans. Official language: Spanish.

Oceania 14

  • Australian From Australia. The people are Australians. No official language in law. English is the national language.
  • Fijian From Fiji. The people are Fijians. Official languages: English, Fijian and Fiji Hindi.
  • I-Kiribati From Kiribati, said KIRR-i-bass. The people are I-Kiribati. Official languages: Gilbertese and English.
  • Marshallese From the Marshall Islands. The people are the Marshallese. Official languages: Marshallese and English.
  • Micronesian From the Federated States of Micronesia. The people are Micronesians. Official language: English.
  • Nauruan From Nauru, which took the official name Republic of Naoero in 2026. Official languages: Nauruan and English.
  • New Zealander From New Zealand. Māori and NZ Sign Language are official in law, and English by custom.
  • Ni-Vanuatu From Vanuatu. Ni-Vanuatu means of Vanuatu. Official languages: Bislama, English and French.
  • Palauan From Palau. The people are Palauans. Official languages: Palauan and English.
  • Papua New Guinean From Papua New Guinea. Official languages: English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin and PNG Sign Language.
  • Samoan From Samoa. The people are Samoans. Official languages: Samoan and English.
  • Solomon Islander From the Solomon Islands. The people are Solomon Islanders. Official language: English.
  • Tongan From Tonga. The people are Tongans. Official languages: Tongan and English.
  • Tuvaluan From Tuvalu. The people are Tuvaluans. Official languages: Tuvaluan and English.

How this list was compiled: 195 demonyms: one for each of the 193 member states of the United Nations plus the two observer states, the Holy See and Palestine, following https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_United_Nations. This is a closed list, so it is complete and was not cut to a round number. Each adjective and the word for the people were checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_and_demonymic_forms_for_countries_and_nations and against the demonym line of the country's own English Wikipedia article. Official languages were checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages_by_country_and_territory and against the language lines of each country's own article; where the two disagreed we followed the country's article and its cited law, which is how the recent changes in Mali (2023), Burkina Faso (2023), Niger (2025), Guinea (2025), the United States (2025), Antigua and Barbuda (2026) and Nauru (2026) are recorded. Countries with no official language in law are worded that way. Continent chips follow the United Nations M49 geoscheme as listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_the_United_Nations_geoscheme: M49 has one region for the Americas, which we split into North America (its Northern America, Central America and Caribbean subregions) and South America. M49 places Russia in Europe and Turkey, Cyprus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in Asia. Each flag is the emoji for the country's ISO 3166-1 two-letter code, read from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1. The history of the word demonym and the origin of -ese follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym, and the definition of nationality and Article 15 follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality. All pages checked 2026-09-18. Card lines are in our own words. A nationality here is a label for a fictional character and says nothing about ancestry, language or belief. Re-checked against the demonym list on 2026-09-19: where a state has two demonyms the list separates them, so the card joins them with or (Antiguan or Barbudan, Bosnian or Herzegovinian, Kittitian or Nevisian, Trinidadian or Tobagonian); the list gives Burkinabes as the word for the people, New Zealanders and Solomon Islanders as the words for the people, with the country name itself as the usual adjective, and the country names Turkey, Czech Republic and Ivory Coast. Country names follow that list and the English Wikipedia article titles, and a card says so where the United Nations uses another form (Czechia, Côte d'Ivoire). The language chips sort a card under each of its official languages, or under the language in use where no law names one. Licence: own work