Look-alike flags

Blue, yellow and red verticals

Vertical blue, yellow and red. Romania and Chad are the most famous near-twins among national flags.

• Romania

  How to tell: Plain, with a slightly lighter cobalt blue.

• Chad

  How to tell: Plain, with a darker indigo blue: almost identical to Romania.

• Andorra

  How to tell: Coat of arms in the centre; the yellow band is wider than the others.

• Moldova

  How to tell: Eagle holding a shield in the centre; the bands are equal.

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
• 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).