Flags / East and South-East Asia and the North Pacific

Flag of Palau

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

How to recognise it

A light blue field with a large yellow disc just off centre towards the hoist.

Name in the quiz: Palau
UN member state name: Palau
ISO 3166-1 code: PW
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Easily confused with

BangladeshPalau: yellow on light blue. Bangladesh: red on dark green.
JapanPalau: yellow on light blue, off centre. Japan: red on white, centred.
KazakhstanKazakhstan: turquoise, a rayed sun above an eagle and a patterned strip. Palau: a plain yellow disc.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Palau (revision 1364640364) (A light blue field with a large yellow disk slightly leaning towards the hoist side; 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/pw.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 21aab87d2672…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.