Flag of Guyana

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

How to recognise it

Green field with a long gold arrowhead edged in white, and a red triangle edged in black at the hoist.

Name in the quiz: Guyana
UN member state name: Guyana
ISO 3166-1 code: GY
Atlas Play pack: South America

Practise the South America pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

BrazilGreen field with a large yellow shape.
BahamasA triangle pointing in from the hoist.
South AfricaTriangles nested at the hoist with thin white and gold edges.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Guyana (A green field with a black-edged red triangle on a white-edged golden triangle, both based on the hoist; 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/gy.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 48b25a1e995f…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.