Flags / East and South-East Asia and the North Pacific

Flag of Mongolia

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

How to recognise it

Red, blue and red vertical bands with a gold column of flame, sun, moon and other shapes on the red at the hoist.

Name in the quiz: Mongolia
UN member state name: Mongolia
ISO 3166-1 code: MN
Atlas Play pack: East and South-East Asia and the North Pacific (explorer pack)

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Easily confused with

PeruMongolia: a blue middle and a gold symbol at the hoist. Peru: a plain white middle.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mongolia (revision 1375778602) (A vertical triband of red, blue, and red, with a Soyombo symbol on the red band at the hoist, with the space above the Soyombo symbol two thirds the height of the space below it; 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/mn.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 e5e5cce9d5bc…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.