Flag of Iran
The flag of Iran, adopted in 1980 and flown in a 4:7 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 Iran
The flag of Iran uses 3 colours: red, white, green. 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 Iran
Iran 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 Iran
The flag of Iran — officially Islamic Republic of Iran — is flown in a 4:7 ratio. Iran sits in Asia, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1980. Iran has its capital at Tehran and a population of about 92.4 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 IR. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Iran
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