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Where Is the Triangle? Four Flags Compared
There is a triangle on each of these four flags.
Can you find where it is?
LOOK · FIND · REVEAL
Find the triangles
Look across each whole flag. Once you find the triangle, look at its colour and what is inside it.
Found them? Reveal the explanation
STEP 1
Where are the triangles?
All four have a triangle on the flagpole side, shown on the left here. Follow their edges. Sharing a position does not make all the triangles identical.
STEP 2
What colour is the triangle?
Czech Republic
Blue
Philippines
White
Jordan
Red
Sudan
Green
Each country uses a different colour for its triangle.
STEP 3
What is inside the triangle?
Look inside too. Some triangles contain marks; others do not.
Czech Republic
No additional mark inside the triangle.
Philippines
A sun and stars.
Jordan
A white star.
Sudan
No additional mark inside the triangle.
The Philippines has a sun and stars; Jordan has a white star. Look at the marks as well as the background colour.
STEP 4
Look outside the triangle
Czech Republic
White above red.
Philippines
The flag shown here has blue above red.
Jordan
Black, white and green, from top to bottom.
Sudan
Red, white and black, from top to bottom.
Even when flags share a triangle, the colour order outside it reveals differences. Read the horizontal bands from top to bottom.
STEP 5
Czechia and the Philippines
You have spotted their shared triangle. Next, combine the colour and mark clues to tell the two flags apart.
STEP 6
Jordan and Sudan
Compare their triangles, then look at the remaining bands. Explore the pair in more detail on Similar Flags.
Three ways to look
① Where is the triangle?
② What colour is it?
③ What is inside it?
Flags can share a triangle and still look different. Compare its colour, the marks inside and the colours outside.
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