Flag of Tajikistan

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

How to recognise it

Red, white and green horizontal bands, the white wider, with a gold crown under an arc of seven stars.

Name in the quiz: Tajikistan
UN member state name: Tajikistan
ISO 3166-1 code: TJ
Atlas Play pack: Central and South Asia (explorer pack)

Practise the Central and South Asia pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

HungaryHungary: equal bands, no emblem. Tajikistan: a wider white band with a gold crown and stars.
IranIran: green on top, a red emblem. Tajikistan: red on top, a gold crown and stars.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Tajikistan (revision 1376687489) (An unequal horizontal tricolor of red, white and green in a 2:3:2 ratio, with a yellow crown surmounted by an arc of seven stars at the centre; 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/tj.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 6c608f6b73cd…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.