Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 3:4.
How to recognise it
Divided diagonally: red upper fly with a gold bird of paradise, black lower hoist with five white stars.
- Name in the quiz
- Papua New Guinea
- UN member state name
- Papua New Guinea
- ISO 3166-1 code
- PG
- Atlas Play pack
- Oceania (starter pack)
Easily confused with
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina: blue with a yellow triangle. Papua New Guinea: red and black with a gold bird.
KiribatiPapua New Guinea: red and black, divided diagonally, with stars. Kiribati: red over blue and white waves, a bird over a rising sun.
Solomon IslandsPapua New Guinea: red and black with a bird of paradise. Solomon Islands: blue and green with a thin yellow stripe.
Source and checks
Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea (Divided diagonally from the upper hoist: red upper triangle with a bird-of-paradise, black lower triangle with the Southern Cross; proportion 3:4). 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/pg.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 169eb25d7f95…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.