Flags / Africa

Flag of Botswana

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

How to recognise it

Light blue field with a black horizontal band, edged in white, across the middle.

Name in the quiz: Botswana
UN member state name: Botswana
ISO 3166-1 code: BW
Atlas Play pack: Africa

Practise the Africa pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

ArgentinaLight blue with a contrasting middle band.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Botswana (A light blue field cut horizontally in the centre by a black stripe with a thin white frame; proportion 2:3). 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/bw.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 0ff8fdd2db8e…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.