Flag of Australia

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 1:2.

How to recognise it

Dark blue field with the Union Flag in the canton, a large seven-point star below it and five white stars on the fly.

Name in the quiz: Australia
UN member state name: Australia
ISO 3166-1 code: AU
Atlas Play pack: Oceania

Practise the Oceania pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

United KingdomThe Union Flag appears in the canton.
New ZealandDark blue ensigns with the Southern Cross: white stars against red stars.
TuvaluUnion Flag canton and stars on the fly.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia (A Blue Ensign with the Commonwealth Star in the lower hoist and the five stars of the Southern Cross on the fly; proportion 1:2). Checked 2026-10-18 by Claude (AI build agent): rendered artwork compared with the reference design description; no human editorial review yet. Artwork: flag-icons 7.6.0 (package/flags/4x3/au.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 11fd226fcfdb…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.