Flag of Mauritania

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

How to recognise it

A green field with a gold crescent and star, and red stripes along the top and bottom.

Name in the quiz: Mauritania
UN member state name: Mauritania
ISO 3166-1 code: MR
Atlas Play pack: North and East Africa (explorer pack)

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Easily confused with

AlgeriaAlgeria: green and white, a red crescent. Mauritania: green with red stripes, a gold crescent.
MaldivesMaldives: a white crescent in a green box on red. Mauritania: a gold crescent and star, red stripes top and bottom.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mauritania (revision 1369884474) (A green field bordered above and below by a horizontal red band and charged in the centre with an upward-pointing golden star and crescent; 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/mr.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 993b1b091e94…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.