Look-alike flags

Union Jack and Southern Cross

British blue ensigns from the South Pacific. Count the stars and check their colour, and look at the shade of blue.

• Australia

  How to tell: Dark blue; six white stars, including a large seven-pointed one under the Union Jack.

• New Zealand

  How to tell: Dark blue; four red stars with white borders, nothing under the Union Jack.

• Tuvalu

  How to tell: Light blue; nine yellow stars.

• Fiji

  How to tell: Light blue; a shield with a lion and crops, no stars.

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
• 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).