Which Southeast Asian country's flag is a single large yellow star on a red field?
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Correct answer: Vietnam.
Known as the "golden star flag," its five points are said to represent workers, peasants, soldiers, intellectuals and youth.
Which country has the world's only nonrectangular national flag, made from two stacked triangular pennants?
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Correct answer: Nepal.
Nepal's flag is a double-pennon with a crimson field, blue border and sun-and-moon symbols; its construction is set out in the country's constitution.
The four trigrams in the corners of South Korea's flag are taken from which ancient Chinese classic?
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Correct answer: The I Ching (Book of Changes).
The four trigrams stand for heaven, earth, water and fire and surround a red-and-blue taegeuk symbolizing the balance of opposing forces — the emblem that gives the flag its name, Taegukgi.
Which country displays the red band above the blue band on its flag when the nation is at war?
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Correct answer: Philippines.
In peacetime the blue band is above the red. The white triangle holds a golden sun with eight rays for the first eight provinces that revolted against Spain, plus three stars for Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
Which country's red flag bears a white star and crescent inherited from the Ottoman Empire?
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Correct answer: Turkey.
The crescent and star began as an imperial and astronomical emblem and only later became widely associated with the Islamic world as a whole.
Which country's five-striped red-white-blue flag, known as the Thong Trairong, has a wide central blue band often associated with the monarchy?
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Correct answer: Thailand.
Red is commonly linked to the nation, white to religion, and blue to the monarchy; the current design was adopted in 1917, during World War I.
Which Central Asian country's blue-white-green flag has a white crescent and twelve white stars in the top band?
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Correct answer: Uzbekistan.
The crescent marks a young nation reborn; the twelve stars relate to the months and the signs of the zodiac.
On China's flag, what do the four small stars around the large star represent?
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Correct answer: The people united under the Communist Party.
The large star represents the Communist Party; the four smaller stars are commonly explained as the people, or social classes, united under the party's leadership.
Which country's flag is a red band over a white band, nearly identical to Monaco's but in different proportions?
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Correct answer: Indonesia.
Called "Sang Saka Merah-Putih" — red for courage, white for purity. Turned upside down, it becomes the flag of Poland.
Which country's national flag should never be flown at half-mast because it bears the shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith?
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Correct answer: Saudi Arabia.
Because the Saudi flag bears the shahada, it is never lowered to half-mast or printed on disposable goods, and it is stitched so the inscription reads correctly from both sides.
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