Flags / Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean

Flag of Seychelles

Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 1:2.

How to recognise it

Five bands of blue, yellow, red, white and green fanning out from the bottom hoist corner.

Name in the quiz: Seychelles
UN member state name: Seychelles
ISO 3166-1 code: SC
Atlas Play pack: Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean (explorer pack)

Practise the Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

Republic of the CongoSeychelles: five bands fanning from one corner. Republic of the Congo: one yellow band between green and red.
MauritiusSeychelles: the bands fan out diagonally. Mauritius: four flat stripes.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Seychelles (revision 1380942890) (Five oblique bands of blue, yellow, red, white, and green radiating from the bottom of the hoist side; proportion 1:2). 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/sc.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 63a7ecf19154…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.