Flag of Yemen
Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 2:3.
How to recognise it
Three equal horizontal bands: red, white, then black, with nothing on them.
- Name in the quiz
- Yemen
- UN member state name
- Yemen
- ISO 3166-1 code
- YE
- Atlas Play pack
- The Middle East (explorer pack), Look-alikes: red, white, black and green
Easily confused with
EgyptYemen: nothing on the white. Egypt: a gold eagle on the white.
IraqYemen: plain. Iraq: green script on the white.
LibyaLibya: a wide black band with a crescent and star, and green at the bottom. Yemen: red, white, black.
SyriaYemen: 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_Yemen (revision 1377202277) (A horizontal tricolour of red, white, and black; 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/ye.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 d7d1b10334a7…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.