Flag of Palau
The flag of Palau, adopted in 1981 and flown in a 5:8 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 Palau
The flag of Palau uses 2 colours: blue, 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 Palau
Palau 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 Palau
The flag of Palau — officially Republic of Palau — is flown in a 5:8 ratio. Palau sits in Oceania, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1981. Palau has its capital at Ngerulmud and a population of about 18 thousand, 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 PW. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Palau
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