Look-alike flags

Red, yellow and green horizontals

The same three colours laid out horizontally, from Africa, South America, Europe and Asia. Which colour is on top settles most of them.

• Ghana

  How to tell: Red–yellow–green with a black star in the centre.

• Bolivia

  How to tell: Red–yellow–green with the coat of arms in the centre (the civil flag is plain).

• Lithuania

  How to tell: Yellow–green–red: yellow on top, plain.

• Myanmar

  How to tell: Yellow–green–red with a large white star across all three bands.

• Ethiopia

  How to tell: Green–yellow–red: green on top, with a blue disc and a yellow star.

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–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).