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Flag of Portugal

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

How to recognise it

Green at the hoist (about two fifths) and red, with a yellow armillary sphere and shield on the boundary.

Name in the quiz: Portugal
UN member state name: Portugal
ISO 3166-1 code: PT
Atlas Play pack: Europe

Practise the Europe pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

SpainRed with a coat of arms on a two-colour field.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Portugal (A vertically striped bicolour of green and red, with the lesser coat of arms centred over the colour boundary; proportion 2:3). 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/pt.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 ff6541577b82…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.