Flags / Central Europe and the small states

Flag of Poland

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 5:8.

How to recognise it

Two equal horizontal bands: white over red.

Name in the quiz: Poland
UN member state name: Poland
ISO 3166-1 code: PL
Atlas Play pack: Central Europe and the small states (explorer pack), Look-alikes: horizontal bands

Practise the Central Europe and the small states pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

IndonesiaIndonesia: red on top. Poland: white on top.
MonacoMonaco: red on top. Poland: white on top.
MaltaMalta: side by side with a small cross. Poland: one above the other, plain.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Poland (revision 1379080691) (A horizontal bicolour of white and red; proportion 5:8). 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/pl.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 2ad8331849a3…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.