Flags of Asia Quiz
Asia refuses to be one family. The west of the continent shares the Arab colours, the east prefers a single bold symbol on a plain field, and in between sit some of the most distinctive designs in the whole bank.
The Arab colours stop at a border
Black, white, green and red have marked Arab flags since the revolt banner of 1916, and the western edge of this flags of Asia quiz wears them: Palestine cuts a red triangle into its bands, Kuwait a black trapezoid, the United Arab Emirates sets a red bar against three horizontal stripes, and Yemen strips the idea down to plain red, white and black with no device at all – the same liberation tricolour that Egypt and Syria build on. The moment a flag shows this palette, every option from East or South Asia can go.
One symbol, whole flag
East Asia plays the opposite game: a field and a single emblem. Japan is a red disc on white and nothing more. Vietnam centres one large gold star on red; China gathers five into the corner, one big and four small – the most reliable trap in this set. Turkey’s crescent and star float straight on the red field, which is precisely what separates it from Tunisia, whose crescent lives inside a white disc. The Philippines adds a rule of its own: the flag is defined so that flying it with the red band uppermost signals a state of war.
Two drawings admit their limits
South Korea’s taegeuk is flanked by four black trigrams whose bars are broken and unbroken in a precise pattern – heaven, earth, water and fire. The drawing here keeps their positions but evens the bars out, so the question carries a simplified-form line, and the Philippine sun – whose eight rays stand for the eight provinces that first rose against Spain in 1896 – is reduced in the same declared way. Neither flag becomes guessable-wrong for it, since the layout is untouched, but no simplification on this site is ever allowed to pass silently.