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Flag of Vatican City

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

How to recognise it

Yellow at the hoist and white, with crossed gold and silver keys under a triple crown on the white. Officially square.

Name in the quiz: Vatican City
Also called: Holy See, Vatican
UN observer state name: Holy See
ISO 3166-1 code: VA
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Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Vatican_City (revision 1364129773) (A vertical bicolour of yellow and white, charged with the emblem of the Holy See centred on the white portion; proportion 1:1). 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/va.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 07e3ff48f304…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.