Flag of Papua New Guinea

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

How to recognise it

Divided diagonally: red upper fly with a gold bird of paradise, black lower hoist with five white stars.

Name in the quiz: Papua New Guinea
UN member state name: Papua New Guinea
ISO 3166-1 code: PG
Atlas Play pack: Oceania

Practise the Oceania pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

KiribatiA gold bird on red.
Solomon IslandsDivided diagonally, with white stars.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea (Divided diagonally from the upper hoist: red upper triangle with a bird-of-paradise, black lower triangle with the Southern Cross; proportion 3:4). 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/pg.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 169eb25d7f95…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.