Flag of DR Congo
Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 3:4.
How to recognise it
Sky blue with a red diagonal band edged in yellow and a yellow star in the top hoist corner.
- Name in the quiz
- DR Congo
- Also called
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo-Kinshasa
- UN member state name
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- ISO 3166-1 code
- CD
- Atlas Play pack
- Central Africa (explorer pack)
Easily confused with
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina: a yellow triangle with a line of white stars. DR Congo: a red band and one yellow star.
Republic of the CongoRepublic of the Congo: green, yellow and red. DR Congo: sky blue with a red band and a yellow star.
NamibiaNamibia: blue and green with a gold sun. DR Congo: all sky blue with a yellow star.
TanzaniaDR Congo: red band on sky blue with a star. Tanzania: black band between green and blue.
Source and checks
Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (revision 1365826868) (A sky blue field with a yellow five-pointed star in the canton and a yellow-fimbriated red diagonal band from the lower hoist-side to the upper fly-side; proportion 3:4). 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/cd.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 19c0eb66c327…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.