Flag of Syria

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

How to recognise it

Green, white and black horizontal bands with three red stars on the white.

Name in the quiz: Syria
UN member state name: Syrian Arab Republic
ISO 3166-1 code: SY
Atlas Play pack: The Middle East (explorer pack), Look-alikes: red, white, black and green

Practise the The Middle East pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

IraqIraq: red on top, green script. Syria: green on top, three red stars.
YemenYemen: red on top, nothing on the white. Syria: green on top, three red stars on the white.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Syria (revision 1378283205) (Three equal horizontal stripes of green, white, and black, from top to bottom, with three red five-pointed stars centered in the white stripe (article lead; the infobox gives no design line); 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/sy.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 eeb5b6d556c3…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.