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 and four red stars edged in white on the fly.
- Name in the quiz
- New Zealand
- UN member state name
- New Zealand
- ISO 3166-1 code
- NZ
- Atlas Play pack
- Oceania (starter pack), Look-alikes: Nordic crosses and Union Flags
Easily confused with
AustraliaAustralia: six white stars, one of them big under the Union Flag. New Zealand: four red stars edged in white.
FijiNew Zealand: dark blue with red stars. Fiji: light blue with a shield.
United KingdomUnited Kingdom: the Union Flag fills the whole flag. New Zealand: it is only in the corner, with four red stars.
Source and checks
Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Zealand (A Blue Ensign with four red five-pointed stars with white borders 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/nz.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 472e50b1b5c5…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.