Flags / Central Europe and the small states

Flag of Luxembourg

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

How to recognise it

Three equal horizontal bands: red, white, then light blue.

Name in the quiz: Luxembourg
UN member state name: Luxembourg
ISO 3166-1 code: LU
Atlas Play pack: Central Europe and the small states (explorer pack), Look-alikes: horizontal bands

Practise the Central Europe and the small states pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

NetherlandsNetherlands: dark blue. Luxembourg: light blue, and a longer real flag.
RussiaLuxembourg: red on top and light blue at the bottom. Russia: white on top and red at the bottom.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Luxembourg (revision 1376546366) (A horizontal triband of red, white and light blue; proportion 3:5). 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/lu.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 745caa3ddf9a…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.