Flag of Australia
The flag of Australia, adopted in 1908 and flown in a 1:2 ratio. Below: what its colours are, which flags it is confused with, and a short drill to make it stick.
Colours of the flag of Australia
The flag of Australia uses 3 colours: blue, white, red. The swatches below are sampled from the flag artwork itself, so they are the exact values used in the file rather than an approximation.
Flags often confused with Australia
Australia is genuinely easy to mix up with 5 other flags. Compare them side by side here — the difference is usually a ratio, a shade, or the order of two bands.
About the flag of Australia
The flag of Australia — officially Commonwealth of Australia — is flown in a 1:2 ratio. Australia sits in Oceania, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1908. Australia has its capital at Canberra and a population of about 27.6 million, figures that come from the same dataset the quizzes are built on.
As an emoji the flag is 🇦🇺, produced from the regional indicator letters for AU. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Australia
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