Flags / Central Europe and the small states

Flag of Austria

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 2:3.

How to recognise it

Three equal horizontal bands: red, white, then red.

Name in the quiz: Austria
UN member state name: Austria
ISO 3166-1 code: AT
Atlas Play pack: Central Europe and the small states (explorer pack), Look-alikes: horizontal bands

Practise the Central Europe and the small states pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

CanadaCanada: upright bands with a maple leaf. Austria: flat bands, no emblem.
LebanonLebanon: a wider white band with a green cedar. Austria: equal bands, nothing on them.
LatviaAustria: bright red and three equal bands. Latvia: dark carmine red and a narrow white stripe.
PeruAustria: the bands lie flat. Peru: the bands stand upright.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Austria (revision 1379745876) (A horizontal triband of red (top and bottom) and white; proportion 2:3). Checked 2026-10-21 by Claude (AI build agent): rendered flag-icons artwork compared side by side with the reference article’s lead image and its infobox design description; no human editorial review yet. Artwork: flag-icons 7.6.0 (package/flags/4x3/at.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 6cdb09541d69…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.