Flag of Nepal

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. Shown inside a 4:3 card; the real flag is not a rectangle but two stacked pennants.

How to recognise it

Not a rectangle: two stacked red pennants with a blue border, a white moon in the upper one and a white sun in the lower one.

Name in the quiz: Nepal
UN member state name: Nepal
ISO 3166-1 code: NP
Atlas Play pack: Central and South Asia (explorer pack)

Practise the Central and South Asia pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

BhutanNepal: not a rectangle, two red pennants with a moon and sun. Bhutan: a rectangle, yellow and orange with a dragon.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Nepal (revision 1378864468) (Two juxtaposed triangular figures creating an irregular pentagon consists of a red field surrounded by a blue border, there being a white emblem of the crescent moon with eight rays visible out of sixteen in the upper part and a white emblem of a twelve rayed sun in the lower part; proportion non-rectangular). 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/np.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 36861001372c…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.