Look-alike flags

Red–white–red

Red, white and red again. The direction of the stripes, the width of the white band and the shade of red tell them apart.

• Austria

  How to tell: Horizontal, three equal bands of bright red.

• Latvia

  How to tell: Horizontal, dark carmine red, and a white band half as tall as the red ones.

• Peru

  How to tell: Vertical, three equal bands.

• Canada

  How to tell: Vertical, with a red maple leaf on a square white centre.

• Lebanon

  How to tell: Horizontal, with a green cedar on a white band twice as tall as the red ones.

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
• Green, white and red or orange
• Pan-African vertical tricolours
• Red, yellow and green horizontals
• 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).