Flag of Cyprus
The flag of Cyprus, adopted in 1960 and flown in a 3:5 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 Cyprus
The flag of Cyprus uses 2 colours: white, orange. 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 Cyprus
Cyprus is genuinely easy to mix up with 1 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 Cyprus
The flag of Cyprus — officially Republic of Cyprus — is flown in a 3:5 ratio. Cyprus sits in Europe, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1960. Cyprus has its capital at Nicosia and a population of about 1.4 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 CY. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Cyprus
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