Flag of Japan
The flag of Japan, adopted in 1870 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 Japan
The flag of Japan uses 2 colours: white, red. 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 Japan
Japan is genuinely easy to mix up with 2 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 Japan
The flag of Japan — officially Japan — is flown in a 2:3 ratio. Japan sits in Asia, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1870. Japan has its capital at Tokyo and a population of about 123.4 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 JP. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Japan
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