Flag of Uruguay
Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 2:3.
How to recognise it
Nine horizontal stripes, white and blue, with a golden sun with a face on a white canton.
- Name in the quiz
- Uruguay
- UN member state name
- Uruguay
- ISO 3166-1 code
- UY
- Atlas Play pack
- South America (starter pack)
Easily confused with
ArgentinaArgentina: three bands. Uruguay: nine stripes with the sun in the corner.
CubaCuba: a red triangle with a star. Uruguay: a sun in the corner and more stripes.
GreeceGreece: a white cross on blue in the canton. Uruguay: a golden sun on white.
United StatesUnited States: stars in a blue canton. Uruguay: a golden sun in a white canton, with blue stripes.
Source and checks
Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Uruguay (Four horizontal blue stripes on white, with the Sun of May in the white upper hoist corner; proportion 2:3). 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/uy.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 263a7327cb0f…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.