Flagory

By colour · Every flag

Flags with red and blue

98 of the 254 flags in the world carry all of red and blue. Each one is shown with the shades it is really painted in.

Can you name them?

84 of the 98, drawn ten at a time, with the wrong answers drawn from the flags people really do confuse them with. The 14 left out fly a picture that already belongs to another flag, so a question showing one would have two right answers.

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Narrower, and wider

The same flags, cut a different way.

How a flag gets onto this list

The colours are taken off the picture rather than from anybody's description of it: what the flag is painted in, and how much of it. Each of those is then filed under the nearest ordinary colour word: red, orange, yellow, green, blue or purple round the colour wheel, and black, grey or white when there is too little colour left to name.

So a flag is on this list because part of it really is red and blue, at the shade shown beside it. If one of them looks wrong to you, it is that rule you are disagreeing with, and the shade is right there to argue with.