Flag of Saudi Arabia

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

How to recognise it

A green field with white Arabic script above a white sword.

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

Practise the The Middle East pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

IraqSaudi Arabia: white script on green. Iraq: green script on white between red and black.
PakistanSaudi Arabia: Arabic script and a sword. Pakistan: a crescent and star with a white band.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia (revision 1380736244) (A green field with the Shahada (the Islamic creed) written in the Thuluth script in white above a horizontal sword, having its tip pointed to the left; proportion 2:3). 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/sa.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 8dc38b6f8f1b…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.