Look-alike flags

Green, white and red or orange

Green and white with red or orange. Check which colour sits at the hoist, whether the stripes run across or down, and the emblem.

• Italy

  How to tell: Vertical green–white–red, plain.

• Mexico

  How to tell: Vertical green–white–red with an eagle on a cactus; darker green and longer.

• Ireland

  How to tell: Vertical green–white–orange: green at the hoist.

• Ivory Coast

  How to tell: Vertical orange–white–green: orange at the hoist, Ireland reversed.

• India

  How to tell: Horizontal saffron–white–green with a navy-blue wheel.

• Niger

  How to tell: Horizontal orange–white–green with an orange disc; almost 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
• 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).