Flags / East and South-East Asia and the North Pacific

Flag of North Korea

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 20:33.

How to recognise it

Blue, thin white, a wide red band, thin white and blue, with a red star in a white disc towards the hoist.

Name in the quiz: North Korea
Also called: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK
UN member state name: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
ISO 3166-1 code: KP
Atlas Play pack: East and South-East Asia and the North Pacific (explorer pack)

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Easily confused with

ThailandNorth Korea: a red middle band with a star in a white disc. Thailand: a blue middle band.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_North_Korea (revision 1378686177) (A wide horizontal red stripe bordered above and below by a thin white stripe and a broad blue stripe. The red stripe is charged near the hoist with a five-pointed red star inside a white disc; proportion 20:33). 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/kp.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 564374127ca6…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.