Flag of New Zealand

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

How to recognise it

Dark blue field with the Union Flag in the canton and four red stars edged in white on the fly.

Name in the quiz: New Zealand
UN member state name: New Zealand
ISO 3166-1 code: NZ
Atlas Play pack: Oceania

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Easily confused with

AustraliaDark blue ensigns with the Southern Cross: white stars against red stars.
FijiEnsigns with the Union Flag in the canton.
United KingdomThe Union Flag appears in the canton.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Zealand (A Blue Ensign with four red five-pointed stars with white borders on the fly; 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/nz.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 472e50b1b5c5…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.