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Afghanistan
Memory hookBlack, red and green vertical bands with a white mosque emblem in the center. Afghanistan.
Albania
Memory hookA black double-headed eagle on a deep red field. Albania's two-headed eagle.
Algeria
Memory hookGreen and white halves with a red crescent and star. Algeria.
Andorra
Memory hookBlue, yellow and red vertical bands with a coat of arms in the middle. Andorra (Romania plus a crest).
Angola
Memory hookRed over black with a yellow half-cogwheel and machete. Angola (echoing the Soviet hammer and sickle).
Antigua and Barbuda
Memory hookRed with a central wedge of black, blue and white and a golden rising sun. Antigua and Barbuda.
Argentina
Memory hookLight blue and white bands with a golden smiling face in the middle, the Sun of May. Argentina: blue sky and sunshine.
Armenia
Memory hookRed, blue and apricot-orange horizontal bands. Armenia: the bottom band is apricot, its national fruit.
Australia
Memory hookBlue with a Union Jack in the corner, a big seven-pointed star below it, and the Southern Cross. Australia (white stars).
Austria
Memory hookThree horizontal bands: red, white, red. Austria, one of the world's oldest flags.
Azerbaijan
Memory hookBlue, red and green bands with a white crescent and an eight-pointed star. Azerbaijan.
Bahamas
Memory hookAquamarine, gold, aquamarine bands with a black triangle at the hoist. Bahamas: sea, sand, people.
Bahrain
Memory hookWhite and red split by a zigzag of five white points. Bahrain (Qatar's cousin, but red, not maroon, and fewer points).
Bangladesh
Memory hookGreen field with a red circle just left of center. Bangladesh (Japan's red dot, on green).
Barbados
Memory hookBlue, gold, blue vertical bands with a black broken trident in the middle. Barbados's trident.
Belarus
Memory hookRed over green, with a red-on-white embroidery pattern running down the left edge. Belarus.
Belgium
Memory hookBlack, yellow and red vertical bands. Belgium (Germany's colours stood upright).
Belize
Memory hookRoyal blue with thin red borders and a busy coat of arms showing two woodcutters. Belize, the only flag with people on it.
Benin
Memory hookA green vertical stripe at the hoist, then yellow over red. Benin (pan-African green, yellow, red).
Bhutan
Memory hookSplit diagonally yellow over orange, with a big white dragon clutching jewels. Bhutan, the Thunder Dragon.
Bolivia
Memory hookRed, yellow and green bands. Picture the Andes: red earth, golden sun, green forest. Bolivia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Memory hookBlue field with a yellow triangle and a diagonal line of white stars. Bosnia.
Botswana
Memory hookLight blue with a black stripe (white-edged) across the middle. Botswana: blue for rain, black-and-white for harmony.
Brazil
Memory hookA green field, a big yellow diamond, and a blue starry globe in the center. Green jungle, gold riches, starry night, Brazil.
Brunei
Memory hookYellow with two diagonal black-and-white stripes and a red crest in the center. Brunei.
Bulgaria
Memory hookWhite, green and red horizontal bands. Bulgaria: a rose garden, green and red.
Burkina Faso
Memory hookRed over green with a yellow star in the middle. Burkina Faso (Ghana's colours, simplified).
Burundi
Memory hookA white X dividing red and green, with three red stars in a white center circle. Burundi.
Cabo Verde
Memory hookBlue with a ring of ten yellow stars over a white-red-white band. Cabo Verde, ten stars for ten islands.
Cambodia
Memory hookBlue, red, blue with a white Angkor Wat temple in the middle. Cambodia, the temple flag.
Cameroon
Memory hookGreen, red, yellow vertical bands with a single yellow star in the middle. Cameroon.
Canada
Memory hookWhite center between two red bands, with a single red maple leaf. Canada.
Central African Republic
Memory hookFour bands (blue, white, green, yellow) split by a red vertical stripe, with a yellow star at the hoist. Central African Republic.
Chad
Memory hookBlue, yellow, red vertical bands. Chad (almost identical to Romania, just a deeper blue).
Chile
Memory hookAlmost the Texas flag: white over red, with one white star in a blue box. Chile's lone star.
China
Memory hookRed with one big gold star and four small ones in the upper-left. China.
Colombia
Memory hookA fat yellow band fills the top half, then blue, then red. Colombia: gold on top.
Comoros
Memory hookFour colour stripes with a green triangle, a white crescent and four stars at the hoist. Comoros.
Costa Rica
Memory hookBlue, white, a wide red band, white, blue. Costa Rica: the red middle is the giveaway.
Croatia
Memory hookRed, white and blue bands with a red-and-white checkerboard shield. Croatia's checkers.
Cuba
Memory hookFive blue and white stripes with a red triangle and one white star at the hoist. Cuba (Puerto Rico's flag with the colours swapped).
Cyprus
Memory hookWhite with a copper-orange map of the island and two green olive branches. Cyprus shows its own shape.
Czech Republic
Memory hookWhite over red with a blue triangle on the left. Czech Republic (Poland plus a blue wedge).
Denmark
Memory hookRed with an off-centre white cross, the oldest national flag, the Dannebrog. Denmark.
Djibouti
Memory hookLight blue over green with a white triangle and a red star at the hoist. Djibouti.
Dominica
Memory hookGreen with a yellow-black-white cross and a parrot in a red circle. Dominica, the only flag with purple (in the parrot).
Dominican Republic
Memory hookBlue and red rectangles split by a white cross, with a coat of arms in the center. Dominican Republic, the only flag with a Bible.
DR Congo
Memory hookSky blue with a red diagonal stripe (yellow-edged) and a yellow star top-left. DR Congo (the big one).
Ecuador
Memory hookSame yellow-blue-red as Colombia, but Ecuador adds a condor and a ship in the center. The bird means Ecuador.
Egypt
Memory hookRed, white, black bands with a golden eagle in the center. Egypt (the red-white-black flag with an eagle).
El Salvador
Memory hookBlue, white, blue bands with a coat of arms in the middle. El Salvador (the Central American trio: this one has a triangle crest).
Equatorial Guinea
Memory hookGreen, white, red bands with a blue triangle at the hoist and a silk-cotton tree crest. Equatorial Guinea.
Eritrea
Memory hookA red triangle pointing right with a gold olive emblem, between green (top) and blue (bottom). Eritrea.
Estonia
Memory hookBlue, black and white horizontal bands. Estonia: blue sky, black soil, white snow.
Eswatini
Memory hookBlue and red bands with a big black-and-white Nguni shield and spears across the middle. Eswatini.
Ethiopia
Memory hookGreen, yellow, red bands with a blue circle and a gold star in the middle. Ethiopia, the original pan-African colours.
Fiji
Memory hookLight sky-blue with a Union Jack and a shield (sugarcane, a dove, bananas). Fiji: the palest blue of the bunch.
Finland
Memory hookWhite with a blue Nordic cross. Finland: blue lakes on snow.
France
Memory hookBlue, white and red vertical bands, the original tricolore. France.
Gabon
Memory hookGreen, yellow, blue horizontal bands. Gabon: forest, sun, sea.
Gambia
Memory hookRed, blue and green bands separated by thin white lines. Gambia: the blue is the river running through it.
Georgia
Memory hookWhite with a big red cross and a small red cross in each corner. Georgia, the Five Cross flag.
Germany
Memory hookBlack, red and gold horizontal bands. Germany.
Ghana
Memory hookRed, yellow, green bands with a black star in the middle. Ghana, the Black Star.
Greece
Memory hookNine blue-and-white stripes with a white cross in the top-left corner. Greece.
Grenada
Memory hookRed border with six stars, a yellow-and-green field, a center star, and a nutmeg at the hoist. Grenada, the spice isle.
Guatemala
Memory hookLight blue, white, light blue vertical bands with a quetzal bird and crossed rifles in the center. Guatemala.
Guinea
Memory hookRed, yellow, green vertical bands. Guinea (Mali mirrored: Mali starts green, Guinea starts red).
Guinea-Bissau
Memory hookA red hoist stripe with a black star, then yellow over green. Guinea-Bissau (Ghana's colours rearranged).
Guyana
Memory hookThe Golden Arrowhead: a green flag pierced by a yellow and red arrow pointing right. Guyana points the way.
Haiti
Memory hookBlue over red with a white panel holding a palm tree and flags. Haiti.
Honduras
Memory hookBlue, white, blue bands with five blue stars in the center. Honduras (the Central American trio: this one has five stars).
Hungary
Memory hookRed, white and green horizontal bands. Hungary (Italy laid sideways, red on top).
Iceland
Memory hookBlue with a white-bordered red Nordic cross. Iceland (Norway's colours swapped).
India
Memory hookSaffron, white and green bands with a navy 24-spoke wheel in the middle. India's Ashoka wheel.
Indonesia
Memory hookRed over white, two equal bands. Indonesia (identical to Monaco but longer, and the opposite of Poland).
Iran
Memory hookGreen, white and red bands with a tulip-like emblem in the center and rows of script along the edges. Iran.
Iraq
Memory hookRed, white and black bands with green Arabic script (Allahu Akbar) in the center. Iraq.
Ireland
Memory hookGreen, white and orange vertical bands. Ireland (Italy, but orange instead of red).
Israel
Memory hookWhite with two blue stripes and a blue Star of David. Israel.
Italy
Memory hookGreen, white and red vertical bands. Italy (Ireland, but red instead of orange).
Ivory Coast
Memory hookOrange, white, green vertical bands. Ivory Coast (Ireland flipped, orange on the left).
Jamaica
Memory hookA gold X dividing the flag into green and black triangles. Jamaica, the only flag with no red, white or blue.
Japan
Memory hookWhite with a single red circle, the rising sun. Japan.
Jordan
Memory hookBlack, white and green bands with a red triangle and a white seven-pointed star at the hoist. Jordan (Palestine, plus the star).
Kazakhstan
Memory hookSky blue with a golden sun above a soaring eagle, and a gold pattern down the left. Kazakhstan.
Kenya
Memory hookBlack, red, green bands with a Maasai shield and crossed spears in the center. Kenya.
Kiribati
Memory hookTop half: a golden frigatebird over a rising sun on red. Bottom: blue and white waves. Kiribati.
Kosovo
Memory hookBlue field with a gold map of the country and six white stars. Kosovo literally shows its own map.
Kuwait
Memory hookGreen, white and red bands with a black trapezoid wedge at the hoist. Kuwait.
Kyrgyzstan
Memory hookRed with a yellow sun, and inside the sun the crossed roof of a yurt. Kyrgyzstan.
Laos
Memory hookRed, blue, red with a plain white circle in the middle. Laos, a full moon over the Mekong.
Latvia
Memory hookDeep maroon with a narrow white band across the middle. Latvia's dark carmine red.
Lebanon
Memory hookRed, white, red with a green cedar tree in the center. Lebanon, the cedar.
Lesotho
Memory hookBlue, white, green bands with a black hat in the middle. Lesotho, the only flag with a hat.
Liberia
Memory hookEleven red and white stripes with one white star on blue. Liberia (the US flag with a single star).
Libya
Memory hookRed, black, green bands (black widest) with a white crescent and star. Libya.
Liechtenstein
Memory hookBlue over red with a gold crown in the upper-left. Liechtenstein added the crown after discovering it shared Haiti's flag.
Lithuania
Memory hookYellow, green and red horizontal bands. Lithuania: sun, forests, blood.
Luxembourg
Memory hookRed, white and light blue bands, like the Netherlands but a paler, lighter blue. Luxembourg.
Madagascar
Memory hookA white vertical stripe at the hoist, then red over green. Madagascar.
Malawi
Memory hookBlack, red, green bands with a rising red sun in the top band. Malawi.
Malaysia
Memory hookFourteen red and white stripes with a yellow crescent and star on blue. Malaysia (the US flag with a crescent).
Maldives
Memory hookRed border around a green rectangle with a white crescent. Maldives.
Mali
Memory hookGreen, yellow, red vertical bands. Mali (Guinea mirrored: Mali starts green).
Malta
Memory hookWhite and red vertical halves with a small grey George Cross in the top-left. Malta.
Marshall Islands
Memory hookBlue with two diagonal stripes (white over orange) rising to a big white star. Marshall Islands.
Mauritania
Memory hookGreen with a gold crescent and star, framed by red stripes top and bottom. Mauritania.
Mauritius
Memory hookFour horizontal bands: red, blue, yellow, green. Mauritius, the only flag with four equal stripes.
Mexico
Memory hookGreen, white, red vertical bands with an eagle eating a snake on a cactus. Mexico (Italy's colours plus the eagle).
Micronesia
Memory hookLight blue with four white stars in a diamond. Micronesia: four stars for four island states.
Moldova
Memory hookBlue, yellow and red vertical bands with an eagle crest in the centre. Moldova (Romania plus the eagle).
Monaco
Memory hookRed over white, two equal bands. Monaco (identical to Indonesia, just shorter and wider).
Mongolia
Memory hookRed, blue, red vertical bands with a gold Soyombo symbol on the left stripe. Mongolia.
Montenegro
Memory hookRed with a gold border and a gold double-headed eagle. Montenegro.
Morocco
Memory hookRed with a green five-pointed star outline in the center. Morocco.
Mozambique
Memory hookGreen, black, yellow bands with a red triangle and an AK-47 over a book. Mozambique, the only flag with a modern rifle.
Myanmar
Memory hookYellow, green and red bands with a big white star in the middle. Myanmar.
Namibia
Memory hookA bold red diagonal stripe, a blue upper corner with a golden sun, and a green lower corner. Namibia.
Nauru
Memory hookBlue with one thin yellow line across the middle (the equator) and a white star just below. Nauru sits right under the equator.
Nepal
Memory hookThe only non-rectangular flag: two stacked crimson triangles with a white moon and sun. Nepal.
Netherlands
Memory hookRed, white and blue horizontal bands. Netherlands (Luxembourg, but a brighter, deeper blue).
New Zealand
Memory hookBlue with a Union Jack and four red stars, the Southern Cross. New Zealand: red stars (Australia's are white, plus an extra big star).
Nicaragua
Memory hookBlue, white, blue bands with a triangle, rainbow and volcanoes in the center. Nicaragua (the Central American trio: this one has a rainbow).
Niger
Memory hookOrange, white, green bands with an orange circle in the middle. Niger (India's layout with a sun for a wheel).
Nigeria
Memory hookGreen, white, green vertical bands. Nigeria: green fields around a white center.
North Korea
Memory hookBlue, red, blue bands with a white circle holding a red star near the hoist. North Korea.
North Macedonia
Memory hookRed with a golden sun whose rays stretch out to the edges. North Macedonia's sun.
Norway
Memory hookRed with a white-bordered blue Nordic cross. Norway (Iceland's colours swapped).
Oman
Memory hookA red vertical bar at the hoist with crossed daggers, then white, red and green panels. Oman.
Pakistan
Memory hookDark green with a white crescent and star, plus a white stripe down the hoist. Pakistan.
Palau
Memory hookLight blue with a single yellow circle set slightly toward the hoist, a full moon. Palau.
Palestine
Memory hookBlack, white and green bands with a red triangle at the hoist. Palestine (Jordan without the star).
Panama
Memory hookFour squares: white with a blue star, red, blue, and white with a red star. Panama.
Papua New Guinea
Memory hookSplit diagonally: black with the Southern Cross, red with a golden bird-of-paradise. Papua New Guinea.
Paraguay
Memory hookRed, white and blue bands with a tiny central emblem, and it is the only flag with a different design on the back. Two-faced Paraguay.
Peru
Memory hookRed, white, red vertical bands, like Canada's flag minus the leaf. Peru.
Philippines
Memory hookBlue over red with a white triangle holding a golden sun and three stars. Philippines (flip it and the red goes on top in wartime).
Poland
Memory hookSimply white over red, two bands. Poland (Monaco flipped, white on top).
Portugal
Memory hookGreen and red split, with a shield and golden armillary sphere where they meet. Portugal.
Qatar
Memory hookMaroon and white split by a nine-point zigzag. Qatar (Bahrain's cousin, but maroon and with more points).
Republic of the Congo
Memory hookA yellow diagonal splitting green (top) and red (bottom). Republic of the Congo (the smaller one).
Romania
Memory hookBlue, yellow and red vertical bands. Romania (Moldova without the crest, Chad with a paler blue).
Russia
Memory hookWhite, blue and red horizontal bands. Russia (the Netherlands with blue in the middle).
Rwanda
Memory hookA wide blue band over thin yellow and green, with a golden sun in the top corner. Rwanda.
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Memory hookA black diagonal band with two white stars, cutting across green and red. Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Saint Lucia
Memory hookLight blue with a black-and-white triangle rising over a yellow one. Saint Lucia's twin peaks, the Pitons.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Memory hookBlue, gold, green bands with three green diamonds forming a V in the gold. Saint Vincent: V for Vincent.
Samoa
Memory hookRed with a blue corner holding five white stars, the Southern Cross. Samoa.
San Marino
Memory hookWhite over pale blue with a crest of three towers. San Marino.
Sao Tome and Principe
Memory hookGreen and yellow bands with two black stars and a red triangle at the hoist. Sao Tome and Principe, two stars for two islands.
Saudi Arabia
Memory hookGreen with white Arabic script (the shahada) above a horizontal sword. Saudi Arabia.
Senegal
Memory hookGreen, yellow, red vertical bands with a green star in the middle. Senegal (Mali's colours plus a star).
Serbia
Memory hookRed, blue and white bands with a double-eagle crest just left of centre. Serbia.
Seychelles
Memory hookFive colours fanning out from the bottom-left corner: blue, yellow, red, white, green. Seychelles.
Sierra Leone
Memory hookGreen, white, blue horizontal bands. Sierra Leone: green hills, white peace, blue sea.
Singapore
Memory hookRed over white with a white crescent and five stars in the corner. Singapore.
Slovakia
Memory hookWhite, blue and red bands with a shield: a white double-cross on blue hills. Slovakia.
Slovenia
Memory hookWhite, blue and red bands with a crest of Mount Triglav and stars near the hoist. Slovenia.
Solomon Islands
Memory hookBlue and green split by a thin yellow diagonal, with five white stars in the upper corner. Solomon Islands.
Somalia
Memory hookLight blue with one white five-pointed star. Somalia, the 'UN blue' with a lone star.
South Africa
Memory hookA green Y on its side joining red, blue, black, white and gold. South Africa, the six-colour rainbow flag.
South Korea
Memory hookWhite with a red-and-blue yin-yang and four sets of black bars in the corners. South Korea.
South Sudan
Memory hookBlack, red, green bands with a blue triangle and a gold star at the hoist. South Sudan (Kenya's bands plus a star).
Spain
Memory hookRed, wide yellow and red bands with a coat of arms left of centre. Spain.
Sri Lanka
Memory hookA golden lion holding a sword on dark red, with green and orange stripes at the hoist. Sri Lanka, the Lion Flag.
Sudan
Memory hookRed, white, black bands with a green triangle at the hoist. Sudan (Jordan's cousin, without the star).
Suriname
Memory hookGreen and red bands split by white, with one big yellow star in the middle. Suriname's lone gold star.
Sweden
Memory hookBlue with a yellow Nordic cross. Sweden: a gold cross on blue.
Switzerland
Memory hookA red square (not a rectangle) with a bold white cross. Switzerland.
Syria
Memory hookRed, white and black bands with two green stars in the center. Syria (Iraq, but two green stars instead of script).
Taiwan
Memory hookRed with a blue canton holding a white sun with twelve rays. Taiwan, the white sun on a blue sky.
Tajikistan
Memory hookRed, white and green bands (white widest) with a gold crown and seven stars in the middle. Tajikistan.
Tanzania
Memory hookA black diagonal (gold-edged) with a green upper corner and a blue lower corner. Tanzania.
Thailand
Memory hookRed, white, a wide blue middle, white, red. Thailand (Costa Rica's stripes with a blue middle instead of red).
Timor-Leste
Memory hookRed with a yellow triangle and a black triangle bearing a white star, all at the hoist. Timor-Leste.
Togo
Memory hookFive green and yellow stripes with a white star on a red square at the hoist. Togo (Liberia's layout in pan-African colours).
Tonga
Memory hookMostly red with a white corner holding a red cross. Tonga kept it even after the Red Cross adopted the same symbol.
Trinidad and Tobago
Memory hookRed with a single black diagonal stripe edged in white. Trinidad and Tobago.
Tunisia
Memory hookRed with a white circle holding a red crescent and star. Tunisia (Turkey's design tucked inside a circle).
Turkey
Memory hookRed with a white crescent and a single white star. Turkey, the classic crescent flag.
Turkmenistan
Memory hookGreen with a red carpet-pattern stripe down the left and a white crescent with five stars. Turkmenistan, the carpet flag (the world's most detailed).
Tuvalu
Memory hookLight blue with a Union Jack and nine yellow stars laid out like its nine islands. Tuvalu.
Uganda
Memory hookSix black, yellow and red stripes with a grey crested crane in a white circle. Uganda, the crane flag.
Ukraine
Memory hookTwo bands only: blue sky over a golden wheat field. Ukraine.
United Arab Emirates
Memory hookA red vertical bar at the hoist, then green, white and black bands. United Arab Emirates.
United Kingdom
Memory hookThe Union Jack: overlapping red and white crosses on a blue field. United Kingdom.
United States
Memory hookThe Stars and Stripes: thirteen red and white stripes with fifty white stars on blue. United States.
Uruguay
Memory hookWhite with blue stripes and a golden sun in the corner, like Argentina's sun jumped onto a stripier flag. Uruguay.
Uzbekistan
Memory hookBlue, white and green bands with thin red lines, plus a white crescent and twelve stars in the corner. Uzbekistan.
Vanuatu
Memory hookRed over green with a black Y-shape and a yellow boar's tusk emblem. Vanuatu.
Vatican City
Memory hookYellow and white vertical halves with the crossed papal keys and tiara. Vatican City.
Venezuela
Memory hookYellow, blue and red bands with an arc of white stars across the blue, like a smile of stars. Venezuela.
Vietnam
Memory hookRed with one large gold star in the center. Vietnam.
Yemen
Memory hookRed, white and black horizontal bands, nothing else. Yemen, the plainest of the red-white-black flags.
Zambia
Memory hookGreen with an orange eagle and a red-black-orange block in the bottom-right corner. Zambia (the design sits on the right).
Zimbabwe
Memory hookStriped green, yellow, red and black with a white triangle, a red star and a soapstone bird at the hoist. Zimbabwe.