Preparing a Flag map of Africa 24 Teams Set For AFCON 2025 In Morocco

 This task consist of two parts, the GIS and Graphic Design parts. To complete the task, I will use two software namely QGIS for the GIS part of the project and GIMP for the graphic design part of the project.

Data Sources:

• The Map is the world map from QGIS resource data
• The Flags were made by Hampus Nilsson

Procedures

Step 1: Using the QGIS software, query the world map for African countries and the 24 teams that qualified for the AFCON 2025 as seen below.

Now we know the countries to be designed with flags respectively.

Step 2: Lets make sure the flags we downloaded are available for the 24 countries. The flag source uses two alphabets to name the flags, this could be challenging but fortunately there is a JSON file in the directory the associalte the two two alphabet code with the full name of the countries.

'BW, 'EG', 'ZR', 'SD', 'ZM', 'NG', 'BJ', 'UG', 'TZ', 'GA', 'CI', 'DZ', 'SN', 'CM', 'GQ', 'BF', 'MZ', 'ZA', 'MA', 'TN', 'AO', 'KM', 'ML', 'ZW'

The 'WB_A2' attribute column matches the names of the flags, so that is what we will use the get the names of the country for each flag.

Step 3: Now that we know the countries and the flag names, lets export the map from QGIS to GIMP. Inside GIMP software, load the exported image map and use 'Fuzzy Select Tool' to select the region with a country and press the delete button.

Then create a new transparent layer and then copy the corresponding map and paste it on the layer. Adjust as per your need and save the image.

Repeat this process for all the 24 countries and the final result should look like below;-

Happy mapping!