Look-alike flags

Nordic crosses

An off-centre cross shifted towards the hoist, after Denmark's Dannebrog, the oldest national flag still in use. Only the colours change.

• Denmark

  How to tell: White cross on red.

• Norway

  How to tell: Blue cross with a white border on red.

• Sweden

  How to tell: Yellow cross on blue.

• Finland

  How to tell: Blue cross on white.

• Iceland

  How to tell: Red cross with a white border on blue: Norway's colours swapped.

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
• 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).