Flag of Egypt
The flag of Egypt, adopted in 1984 and flown in a 2:3 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 Egypt
The flag of Egypt uses 4 colours: red, black, white, yellow. 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 Egypt
Egypt is genuinely easy to mix up with 3 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 Egypt
The flag of Egypt — officially Arab Republic of Egypt — is flown in a 2:3 ratio. Egypt sits in Africa, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1984. Egypt has its capital at Cairo and a population of about 118.4 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 EG. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Egypt
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