Flag of Guinea

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

How to recognise it

Three equal vertical bands: red at the hoist, yellow, then green.

Name in the quiz: Guinea
UN member state name: Guinea
ISO 3166-1 code: GN
Atlas Play pack: West Africa (explorer pack), Look-alikes: upright tricolours

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Easily confused with

CameroonGuinea: red at the hoist, no star. Cameroon: green at the hoist, a yellow star on red.
MaliMali: green at the hoist. Guinea: red at the hoist.
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines: blue at the hoist and green diamonds. Guinea: red at the hoist, plain.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Guinea (revision 1365387167) (A vertical tricolour of red, yellow and green; 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/gn.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 6b11e4402efa…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.