Flags / Explorer pack
Central and South Asia
The Caucasus, Central Asia, Iran and South Asia, from Georgia to the Maldives.
A round shows ten of these 14, in a new order, each with four names from this pack.
Practise with descriptions shows a written description of each flag before you answer, for learning by ear or with a screen reader. Those rounds are counted separately.
The 14 flags
- ArmeniaThree equal horizontal bands: red, blue, then orange.
- AzerbaijanLight blue, red and green horizontal bands with a white crescent and eight-pointed star on the red.
- GeorgiaA white field with a large red cross and a small red cross in each quarter.
- KazakhstanA turquoise field with a gold sun above a soaring eagle and a gold patterned strip at the hoist.
- KyrgyzstanA red field with a yellow sun of forty rays crossed by red lines in the centre.
- TajikistanRed, white and green horizontal bands, the white wider, with a gold crown under an arc of seven stars.
- TurkmenistanA green field with a red vertical stripe of carpet patterns near the hoist and a white crescent with five stars.
- UzbekistanLight blue, white and green bands with thin red lines between them, and a white crescent with twelve stars at the top hoist.
- IranGreen, white and red horizontal bands with a red emblem in the centre and white script repeated along the edges of the green and red.
- PakistanA dark green field with a white crescent and star, and a white vertical band at the hoist.
- BhutanDivided diagonally, yellow above and orange below, with a white dragon along the line.
- NepalNot a rectangle: two stacked red pennants with a blue border, a white moon in the upper one and a white sun in the lower one.
- Sri LankaA gold lion holding a sword on maroon, with a green and an orange stripe at the hoist, all inside a gold border.
- MaldivesA red field with a green rectangle in the centre holding a white crescent.
Telling the look-alikes apart
Iran and TajikistanIran: green on top, a red emblem. Tajikistan: red on top, a gold crown and stars.
Azerbaijan and UzbekistanAzerbaijan: a wide red band in the middle. Uzbekistan: a wide white band with thin red lines, and twelve stars.
Turkmenistan and PakistanTurkmenistan: a red strip of carpet patterns. Pakistan: a plain white strip.
Bhutan and Sri LankaBhutan: a white dragon on yellow and orange. Sri Lanka: a gold lion on maroon.
Nepal and BhutanNepal: not a rectangle, two red pennants with a moon and sun. Bhutan: a rectangle, yellow and orange with a dragon.
Other packs
- Europe10 flags
- Africa10 flags
- Asia10 flags
- North America and the Caribbean10 flags
- South America10 flags
- Oceania10 flags
- Northern and Eastern Europe11 flags
- Central Europe and the small states13 flags
- South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean11 flags
- West Africa13 flags
- North and East Africa10 flags
- Central Africa10 flags
- Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean10 flags
- The Middle East14 flags
- East and South-East Asia and the North Pacific12 flags
- The Caribbean and Central America14 flags
- Look-alikes: upright tricolours12 flags
- Look-alikes: horizontal bands12 flags
- Look-alikes: red, white, black and green10 flags
- Look-alikes: Nordic crosses and Union Flags10 flags