Flag of Libya

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

How to recognise it

Red, black and green horizontal bands, the black twice as wide, with a white crescent and star on it.

Name in the quiz: Libya
UN member state name: Libya
ISO 3166-1 code: LY
Atlas Play pack: North and East Africa (explorer pack), Look-alikes: red, white, black and green

Practise the North and East Africa pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

YemenLibya: a wide black band with a crescent and star, and green at the bottom. Yemen: red, white, black.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Libya (revision 1372688313) (A horizontal triband of red, black (double width) and green; charged with a white crescent and five-pointed star centered on the black stripe; 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/ly.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 cbb475e717b5…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.