Look-alike flags

Stars and stripes

Red and white stripes with a blue canton. Liberia's flag was modelled on the US flag; Malaysia's came later with its own symbols.

• United States

  How to tell: 13 stripes and 50 small white stars.

• Liberia

  How to tell: 11 stripes and a single large white star.

• Malaysia

  How to tell: 14 stripes and a yellow crescent with a 14-pointed 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, yellow and green horizontals
• Red–white–red
• Red, white and green horizontals
• Black, red and gold
• Union Jack and Southern Cross
• 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).