Flag of Egypt

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

How to recognise it

Red, white and black horizontal bands with a gold eagle on the white.

Name in the quiz: Egypt
UN member state name: Egypt
ISO 3166-1 code: EG
Atlas Play pack: North and East Africa (explorer pack), Look-alikes: red, white, black and green

Practise the North and East Africa pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Egypt (revision 1380143619) (Horizontally divided red-white-black tricolour flag with the Eagle of Saladin; 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/eg.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 9d0dc02c69da…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.