Flag of Benin

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

How to recognise it

A green vertical band at the hoist, then yellow over red.

Name in the quiz: Benin
UN member state name: Benin
ISO 3166-1 code: BJ
Atlas Play pack: West Africa (explorer pack)

Practise the West Africa pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

Guinea-BissauBenin: a plain green band, yellow over red. Guinea-Bissau: a red band with a black star, yellow over green.
MadagascarMadagascar: white at the hoist, red over green. Benin: green at the hoist, yellow over red.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Benin (revision 1335685961) (A horizontal bicolour of yellow and red with a green vertical band at the hoist; 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/bj.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 d43c3e80d0bc…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.