Look-alike flags

Gran Colombia tricolours

Yellow, blue and red from the flag of Gran Colombia, the republic that split into Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela in 1830.

• Colombia

  How to tell: Plain; the yellow band fills the top half.

• Ecuador

  How to tell: Same proportions as Colombia, but with the coat of arms (a condor) in the centre.

• Venezuela

  How to tell: Three equal bands and an arc of eight white stars in the blue band.

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

• Pan-Arab colours
• Red, white and black 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
• 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).