Look-alike flags

Red, white and black tricolours

The Arab Liberation tricolour: three equal horizontal bands of red, white and black. The emblem in the white band is the whole difference.

• Egypt

  How to tell: Golden Eagle of Saladin in the white band.

• Iraq

  How to tell: Green Arabic script (“Allahu Akbar”) in the white band.

• Yemen

  How to tell: Plain: no emblem at all.

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

• Pan-Arab colours
• 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
• 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).