Flag Lookalikes: Tricolors and Nordic Crosses

France is a vertical blue-white-red tricolor. The Netherlands and Russia use the same colors, but horizontally.

Ireland is green-white-orange from the flagpole. Côte d'Ivoire is the mirror image: orange at the hoist.

Italy is a vertical green-white-red tricolor. Hungary has the same colors but in horizontal stripes.

The Netherlands is red-white-blue in horizontal stripes. Russia is white-blue-red.

Russia: white, blue, red from top to bottom.

Germany is black-red-gold horizontally. Belgium uses black-yellow-red vertically.

Belgium is black-yellow-red in vertical stripes; almost square in shape.

Romania is blue-yellow-red vertically. (Chad's flag is nearly identical, with a slightly darker blue.)

Poland is white over red. Indonesia (and Monaco) are red over white.

Indonesia is red over white; Poland is the reverse.

Austria is red-white-red in horizontal stripes. Peru is red-white-red vertically.

Denmark: a white Nordic cross on red. Norway adds a blue cross inside the white one.

Norway: red field, white-bordered blue cross. Iceland is the reverse: blue field, white-bordered red cross.

Iceland: blue field with a red cross outlined in white.

Finland: blue cross on white. Sweden: yellow cross on blue.

Sweden: yellow Nordic cross on a blue field. Ukraine is blue over yellow with no cross.

Hungary is red-white-green in horizontal stripes. Italy uses the same colors vertically.

Bulgaria is white-green-red from the top.

Lithuania is yellow-green-red horizontally.

Estonia is blue-black-white.

Côte d'Ivoire starts with orange at the flagpole; Ireland starts with green.

Peru's civil flag is red-white-red in vertical stripes.

Colombia's yellow band is twice as tall as the blue and red ones. Ecuador looks similar but carries a coat of arms.

Thailand: red-white-blue-white-red, with a double-height blue stripe. Costa Rica uses the same colors with red in the middle.

Bangladesh: a red disc on dark green, set slightly toward the hoist.