Flag of Uruguay

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

How to recognise it

Nine horizontal stripes, white and blue, with a golden sun with a face on a white canton.

Name in the quiz: Uruguay
UN member state name: Uruguay
ISO 3166-1 code: UY
Atlas Play pack: South America

Practise the South America pack Today’s flags

Easily confused with

ArgentinaLight blue and white with the same golden sun.
CubaBlue and white horizontal stripes.
United StatesHorizontal stripes with an emblem in the canton.

Source and checks

Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Uruguay (Four horizontal blue stripes on white, with the Sun of May in the white upper hoist corner; proportion 2:3). Checked 2026-10-18 by Claude (AI build agent): rendered artwork compared with the reference design description; no human editorial review yet. Artwork: flag-icons 7.6.0 (package/flags/4x3/uy.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 263a7327cb0f…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.