Flag of Guinea-Bissau
Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 1:2.
How to recognise it
A red vertical band at the hoist with a black star, then yellow over green.
- Name in the quiz
- Guinea-Bissau
- UN member state name
- Guinea Bissau
- ISO 3166-1 code
- GW
- Atlas Play pack
- West Africa (explorer pack)
Easily confused with
BeninBenin: a plain green band, yellow over red. Guinea-Bissau: a red band with a black star, yellow over green.
Cabo VerdeGuinea-Bissau: red, yellow and green with one black star. Cabo Verde: blue with a ring of ten yellow stars.
São Tomé and PríncipeSão Tomé and Príncipe: a red triangle and two stars on the yellow. Guinea-Bissau: a red band with one star.
Source and checks
Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Guinea-Bissau (revision 1368715154) (One vertical red band on the hoist side charged with a black five-pointed star; two horizontal bands on the fly side of yellow and green; proportion 1:2). 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/gw.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 58e495c773b3…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.