Flags / Central and South Asia
Flag of Sri Lanka
Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 1:2.
How to recognise it
A gold lion holding a sword on maroon, with a green and an orange stripe at the hoist, all inside a gold border.
- Name in the quiz
- Sri Lanka
- UN member state name
- Sri Lanka
- ISO 3166-1 code
- LK
- Atlas Play pack
- Central and South Asia (explorer pack)
Easily confused with
Source and checks
Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka (revision 1377851455) (Two fields separated by a golden border: the smaller hoist-side field has only two vertical halves of teal and orange and the larger fly-side field is the maroon field depicting the golden lion holding a kastane sword in its right fore paw in the centre and four bo tree (bodhi tree) leaves on each corner, and the golden border around the entire flag extends in between the two separate fields, all bordering together; 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/lk.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 59a4cd0dc13e…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.