Flags / Asia

Flag of Malaysia

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

How to recognise it

Fourteen red and white horizontal stripes with a dark blue canton holding a yellow crescent and a 14-point star.

Name in the quiz: Malaysia
UN member state name: Malaysia
ISO 3166-1 code: MY
Atlas Play pack: Asia

Practise the Asia pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

United StatesRed and white stripes with a blue canton.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Malaysia (Fourteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton a yellow crescent and fourteen-point star on blue; proportion 1:2). 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/my.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 d49e698e11c4…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.