Flag of Mexico

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 4:7.

How to recognise it

Three vertical bands, green at the hoist, white, then red, with an eagle on a cactus in the centre of the white.

Name in the quiz: Mexico
UN member state name: Mexico
ISO 3166-1 code: MX
Atlas Play pack: North America and the Caribbean

Practise the North America and the Caribbean pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

ItalyGreen, white, red vertical bands; one has an emblem on the white.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mexico (A vertical tricolour of green, white and red, with the national coat of arms on the white band; proportion 4:7). Checked 2026-10-18 by Claude (AI build agent): rendered artwork compared with the reference design description; no human editorial review yet. Artwork: flag-icons 7.6.0 (package/flags/4x3/mx.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 1c2780db299a…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.