Flags / Europe

Flag of Germany

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 3:5.

How to recognise it

Three equal horizontal bands: black, red, then gold.

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

Practise the Europe pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

BelgiumBlack, red and yellow or gold, vertical against horizontal.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Germany (A horizontal tricolour of black, red, and gold; proportion 3:5). 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/de.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 50484b9b297e…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.