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Photograph: Anastasiia Guseva/Getty Images
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How well do you know the flags of the world? Take our quiz

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Will you be a standard-bearer or struggling down at half-mast? Test your knowledge of weird and wonderful flag facts

  1. 1.Which of these countries is the most recent to drop the union jack from its national flag?
  2. 2.If you turned the Indonesian flag upside down which European country's flag would you get?
  3. 3.Why isn’t Wales represented on the union jack?flag
  4. 4.Since its original design in 1777, how many times has the Stars and Stripes been updated with extra stars as more states entered the union? Flag
  5. 5.This is the world’s tallest flagpole – where is it?flagpole
  6. 6.This is the flag of which country?
  7. 7.What about this one?Flag
  8. 8.And this one?flag
  9. 9.The flag of three of these countries is a green, white and orange tricolour or triband. Which one is NOT? Flag
  10. 10.And the flag of three of these countries is a red, white and blue tricolour or triband. Which one is NOT? flag
  11. 11.This is the world's only non-quadrilateral flag – of which country?flag
  12. 12.What do the national flags of Belize, Guatemala, Mozambique and Saudi Arabia have in common?
  13. 13.Which country holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest continuously used national flag?
  14. 14.Here's the first of three more "this is the flag of which country" questions – a bit harder this time – starting with this beauty.
  15. 15.What about this one?
  16. 16.And one more …
  17. 17.There was a period of 15 years when the flag of which country was just a white flag?
  18. 18.How many stars are on the Chinese flag?
  19. 19.This is the former flag of which country?flag
  20. 20.Which country has changed its flag the most times?

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