Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 1:2.
How to recognise it
Dark blue field with the Union Flag in the canton, a large seven-point star below it and five white stars on the fly.
- Name in the quiz
- Australia
- UN member state name
- Australia
- ISO 3166-1 code
- AU
- Atlas Play pack
- Oceania (starter pack), Look-alikes: Nordic crosses and Union Flags
Easily confused with
United KingdomUnited Kingdom: the Union Flag fills the whole flag. Australia: it is only in the corner, with white stars on blue.
New ZealandAustralia: six white stars, one of them big under the Union Flag. New Zealand: four red stars edged in white.
TuvaluAustralia: dark blue with white stars. Tuvalu: light blue with nine gold stars.
Source and checks
Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia (A Blue Ensign with the Commonwealth Star in the lower hoist and the five stars of the Southern Cross on the fly; proportion 1:2). 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/au.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 11fd226fcfdb…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.