Flag of Qatar

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 11:28.

How to recognise it

White at the hoist and maroon, divided by a zigzag with nine white points.

Name in the quiz: Qatar
UN member state name: Qatar
ISO 3166-1 code: QA
Atlas Play pack: The Middle East (explorer pack)

Practise the The Middle East pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

BahrainBahrain: bright red, five white points. Qatar: maroon, nine white points.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Qatar (revision 1380991689) (A white band on the hoist side, separated from a maroon area on the fly side by nine white triangles which act as a serrated line; proportion 11:28). 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/qa.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 70061eb86edc…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.