Flag of Poland
The flag of Poland, adopted in 1919 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 Poland
The flag of Poland 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 Poland
Poland 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 Poland
The flag of Poland — officially Republic of Poland — is flown in a 5:8 ratio. Poland sits in Europe, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1919. Poland has its capital at Warsaw and a population of about 36.4 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 PL. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Poland
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