Flags / Central Europe and the small states

Flag of Monaco

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

How to recognise it

Two equal horizontal bands: red over white, with nothing else on them.

Name in the quiz: Monaco
UN member state name: Monaco
ISO 3166-1 code: MC
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

IndonesiaIndonesia and Monaco are practically the same picture: Monaco’s real flag is squarer (4:5), which a 4:3 card hides. They are never asked together.
PolandMonaco: red on top. Poland: white on top.
SingaporeSingapore: a crescent and five stars. Monaco: nothing on it.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Monaco (revision 1367034076) (A horizontal bicolour of red and white; proportion 4:5). 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/mc.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 969410bddef8…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.