Flag of Italy
The flag of Italy, adopted in 1946 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 Italy
The flag of Italy uses 3 colours: green, 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 Italy
Italy is genuinely easy to mix up with 4 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 Italy
The flag of Italy — officially Italian Republic — is flown in a 2:3 ratio. Italy sits in Europe, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1946. Italy has its capital at Rome and a population of about 58.9 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 IT. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Italy
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