Flag of Iceland

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 18:25.

How to recognise it

A red cross edged in white on a blue field, its upright set towards the hoist.

Name in the quiz: Iceland
UN member state name: Iceland
ISO 3166-1 code: IS
Atlas Play pack: Northern and Eastern Europe (explorer pack), Look-alikes: Nordic crosses and Union Flags

Practise the Northern and Eastern Europe pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Iceland (revision 1377001383) (A blue field with the white-edged red Nordic cross that extends to the edges; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side. In Blazon, "Azure, a cross gules fimbriated argent"; proportion 18:25). 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/is.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 1957cff84a5a…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.