Flag of Latvia

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 1:2.

How to recognise it

A dark carmine red field with a narrow white stripe across the middle.

Name in the quiz: Latvia
UN member state name: Latvia
ISO 3166-1 code: LV
Atlas Play pack: Northern and Eastern Europe (explorer pack), Look-alikes: horizontal bands

Practise the Northern and Eastern Europe pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

AustriaAustria: bright red and three equal bands. Latvia: dark carmine red and a narrow white stripe.
PeruLatvia: flat bands, dark carmine, a narrow white stripe. Peru: upright bands.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Latvia (revision 1379745791) (A carmine red field bisected by a narrow white stripe (one-fifth the width of the flag); 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/lv.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 1c4686f542d7…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.