Look-alike flags

Black, red and gold

Neighbours with the same three colours. Direction and order are the whole difference.

• Germany

  How to tell: Horizontal black–red–gold, black on top.

• Belgium

  How to tell: Vertical black–yellow–red, black at the hoist; nearly square.

Pick the right country. The detail that gives it away appears after each answer.

• Pan-Arab colours
• Red, white and black tricolours
• Gran Colombia tricolours
• Blue–white–blue flags
• Pan-Slavic tricolours
• Red, white and blue stripes
• Nordic crosses
• Red and white halves
• Blue, yellow and red verticals
• Green, white and red or orange
• Pan-African vertical tricolours
• Red, yellow and green horizontals
• Red–white–red
• Red, white and green horizontals
• Union Jack and Southern Cross
• Stars and stripes
• A disc on a plain field
• Red crescent flags
• Serrated white bands
• Blue over red

Flags: flag-icons (MIT). Country data: world-countries (ODbL), World Bank (CC BY 4.0), Wikidata (CC0).