40 countries are pre-loaded — drag them into tiers, add any we missed, and build your definitive country ranking.
Missing a country? Hit ＋ Add items to add any nation. Every tile already shows its flag — use 🏷 Image + label to switch to flags only.
A country tier list sorts nations into ranked rows by whatever you care about most — food, scenery, football, how friendly the locals were. This board starts with 40 countries, each tile a flag plus its name, from the United States and Japan to Iceland and Singapore. Add any nation that's missing, rename or recolor the rows, then share a link or save the board as a PNG.
This country tier list loads 40 well-known nations so you can drag them into S through D and rank countries the way you actually think about them — food, culture, travel, football, vibes, or all of the above. Whether you are building a serious countries tier list of places you have visited or a lighthearted best countries tier list for fun, the tray gives you a strong starting lineup from the US and Japan to Brazil, Italy and beyond.
There is no objective winner, which is the whole point — your S-tier is someone else's C, and that is what sparks the replies. Turn it into a travel wishlist, a flags showdown, or a food-first ranking. Stuck on where to start? Browse more tier list ideas or read how to make a tier list. When your ranking is set, export a PNG and compare with friends.
Most published country rankings — the yearly "top 10 countries" lists — score nations on income or safety and crown one winner. A tier list shows countries ranked by your own yardstick instead, so friends see at a glance that you put Portugal above France and parked Canada in D. Every tile carries a name as well as a flag, so it works as a country tier list with names too. Need more nations of the world? Paste a list into ＋ Add items, one name per line.
Because "best country" means something different to everyone, this template flexes: rank by places you have been, cuisines you love, or countries topping your bucket list. The tiles already pair every name with its flag, so a proper country flags tier list takes no extra setup.
For a pure country flag tier list, switch the tiles to image-only so the names disappear and design is all that's left to judge. Other lenses that work: national anthems played back to back, landmarks, passport strength, or how many of the 40 your friends can find on a world map. Planning trips rather than ranking whole nations? The travel destinations tier list is built for cities and places, and the US states tier list runs the same idea one level down.
Nearly half the 40 tiles are European, so a European country tier list works straight away: drag the European flags into tiers and leave the rest in the tray, which stays out of the exported PNG. An Asian country tier list has ten to work with, from Japan and China down to Singapore and the UAE — add Malaysia, Taiwan or Sri Lanka if you want Asia properly covered. South America is the thin spot. Brazil and Argentina are the only two loaded, so for a fair Latin America board, type in Colombia, Chile and Peru before you start.
Going one continent at a time is also the easiest way to finish. Rank Europe, save the image, move on to Asia, then give each region's S-tier winners a board of their own and settle it there. If you're hunting for gaps, Wikipedia's list of sovereign states makes a decent checklist.
Drag each country from the tray into a tier from S to D, then export a PNG. It's pre-loaded so you can start immediately.
Yes — every tile already shows the country's flag next to its name. Use the 🏷 Image + label button to switch between flags with names, flags only and names only.
Anything you like: food, culture, travel experiences, or a bucket-list wishlist. Pick a lens and rank consistently.
Outside tier lists, "tier 1 country" is advertising and app-marketing shorthand for wealthy, high-spending markets — usually the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, often plus parts of Western Europe. It isn't an official category, and every ad network draws the line a little differently. On this board, a tier is just the row you drag a country into.
They're the lower steps on that same marketing scale: tier 2 usually means middle-income markets where GDP and purchasing power are climbing, tier 3 the lower-income markets where ads earn the least. No official tier 2 or tier 3 country list exists. The nearest official version is the World Bank's four income groups, which measure national income per person — not which country is nicer to live in.
There's no single answer, because it depends on what you measure. The UN's Human Development Index, built from life expectancy, schooling and income, usually puts Switzerland and the Nordic countries near the top; food or cost-of-living rankings crown very different places. That's the argument for a tier list — pick one yardstick, and your S tier is the answer that counts for you.
Yes, but only 40 come loaded, so the other 150-plus go in by hand — paste the names into ＋ Add items, and every line turns into its own tile in the tray. The UN recognizes 193 member states, while places such as Taiwan or Kosovo depend on whose list you use, so decide up front which ones count.
Yes. The share menu copies a link that carries the whole board, so whoever opens it sees your tiers exactly as you left them, with no account needed on either side. You can also download the PNG for a group chat, or make the board public so it appears in the community gallery.