Flag of France
The flag of France, adopted in 1794 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 France
The flag of France uses 3 colours: blue, red, white. 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 France
France 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 France
The flag of France — officially French Republic — is flown in a 2:3 ratio. France sits in Europe, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1794. France has its capital at Paris and a population of about 68.7 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 FR. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on France
Keyboard: 1–4 to answer · Enter for next · Esc to restart