Look-alike flags

Blue–white–blue flags

The Central American flags descend from the Federal Republic of Central America, itself inspired by Argentina's blue and white. The centre is where they differ.

• Honduras

  How to tell: Horizontal; five blue stars in the white band.

• El Salvador

  How to tell: Horizontal; coat of arms with a triangle, framed by a laurel wreath and lettering.

• Nicaragua

  How to tell: Horizontal; circular emblem with a triangle and a rainbow, and no wreath.

• Guatemala

  How to tell: Vertical stripes (the only one here); quetzal bird and crossed rifles in the centre.

• Argentina

  How to tell: Horizontal, light blue; golden Sun of May with a face.

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
• 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
• Black, red and gold
• 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).