Flags / South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean

Flag of Greece

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

How to recognise it

Nine blue and white horizontal stripes with a white cross on a blue canton.

Name in the quiz: Greece
UN member state name: Greece
ISO 3166-1 code: GR
Atlas Play pack: South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean (explorer pack)

Practise the South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

FinlandGreece: nine stripes and a cross in the canton. Finland: one blue Nordic cross.
UruguayGreece: a white cross on blue in the canton. Uruguay: a golden sun on white.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Greece (revision 1380746558) (Nine horizontal stripes, in turn blue and white; a white Greek cross throughout a blue canton; 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/gr.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 0dd30e6e5ac0…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.