Flags / North America and the Caribbean
Flag of Jamaica
Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 1:2.
How to recognise it
A gold diagonal cross, with green triangles top and bottom and black triangles at the hoist and fly.
- Name in the quiz
- Jamaica
- UN member state name
- Jamaica
- ISO 3166-1 code
- JM
- Atlas Play pack
- North America and the Caribbean (starter pack)
Easily confused with
BurundiBurundi: a white cross with a disc of three red stars between red and green. Jamaica: a gold cross with black and green.
DominicaDominica: a three-colour cross and a red disc with a parrot. Jamaica: a gold diagonal cross.
GrenadaGrenada: a red border with stars. Jamaica: a gold diagonal cross with black.
South AfricaSouth Africa: a sideways Y and red and blue. Jamaica: a gold diagonal cross and no red or blue.
Source and checks
Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Jamaica (A gold diagonal cross dividing the field into green triangles (top and bottom) and black (hoist and 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/jm.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 7b28a1ab1a1f…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.