Flag of Syria
The flag of Syria, adopted in 1980 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 Syria
The flag of Syria uses 4 colours: green, black, 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 Syria
Syria 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 Syria
The flag of Syria — officially Syrian Arab Republic — is flown in a 2:3 ratio. Syria sits in Asia, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1980. Syria has its capital at Damascus and a population of about 25.6 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 SY. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Syria
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