Flag of Russia
The flag of Russia, adopted in 1993 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 Russia
The flag of Russia uses 3 colours: blue, 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 Russia
Russia is genuinely easy to mix up with 5 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 Russia
The flag of Russia — officially Russian Federation — is flown in a 2:3 ratio. Russia sits in Europe, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1993. Russia has its capital at Moscow and a population of about 143.5 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 RU. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Russia
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