Flags / East and South-East Asia and the North Pacific
Flag of Myanmar
Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 2:3.
How to recognise it
Yellow, green and red horizontal bands with a large white star across them.
- Name in the quiz
- Myanmar
- Also called
- Burma
- UN member state name
- Myanmar
- ISO 3166-1 code
- MM
- Atlas Play pack
- East and South-East Asia and the North Pacific (explorer pack)
Easily confused with
Burkina FasoBurkina Faso: two bands and a small yellow star. Myanmar: yellow, green and red with a large white star.
GhanaMyanmar: a large white star. Ghana: a black star on red, gold, green.
SurinameSuriname: a yellow star on red between green bands. Myanmar: a white star across yellow, green and red.
Source and checks
Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar (revision 1381002320) (A horizontal triband of saffron, green and red; charged with one large white five-pointed star at the centre; proportion 2:3). 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/mm.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 9ed0ce6d2dce…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.