Flag of Liberia

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 10:19.

How to recognise it

Eleven red and white horizontal stripes with a single white star on a blue canton.

Name in the quiz: Liberia
UN member state name: Liberia
ISO 3166-1 code: LR
Atlas Play pack: West Africa (explorer pack)

Practise the West Africa pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

MalaysiaLiberia: one white star. Malaysia: a yellow crescent and star.
TogoTogo: green and yellow stripes, a red canton. Liberia: red and white stripes, a blue canton.
United StatesLiberia: one big white star and eleven stripes. United States: fifty stars and thirteen stripes.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Liberia (revision 1370753851) (Eleven horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, a white star on a blue field; proportion 10:19). 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/lr.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 2c66e5f51e48…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.