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Flag of Belgium

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 13:15.

How to recognise it

Three vertical bands: black at the hoist, then yellow, then red. Officially almost square.

Name in the quiz: Belgium
UN member state name: Belgium
ISO 3166-1 code: BE
Atlas Play pack: Europe

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Easily confused with

GermanyBlack, red and yellow or gold, vertical against horizontal.
FranceVertical tricolours of equal bands.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belgium (A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red; proportion 13:15). 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/be.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 9c3642726e77…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.