Which Flags Have No Red or Blue? Only 10 Countries (Map)

By my count, only ten countries have a national flag with no red and no blue anywhere on it: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Côte d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Ireland, Jamaica, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Everyone else reached for the same two colours. Here are the ten.

World map with almost every country in purple for red or blue on the flag, and ten countries in green with no red or blue

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The ten flags with no red or blue: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Côte d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ireland, Jamaica, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia — The ten flags with no red or blue

What the ten have instead

Mostly green. Ireland, Côte d’Ivoire and Niger all went for orange, white and green, and Ireland and Côte d’Ivoire are the same three stripes the other way round. Nigeria is green and white, and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are green and white with a crescent or writing on them.

Bhutan is yellow and orange with a white dragon, which is the best thing on any flag and I won’t be taking questions. Cyprus is white with a copper-coloured map of the island on it, in case anyone forgets where it is.

Jamaica is green, black and gold, and Wikipedia says it’s the only national flag with no white, red or blue at all. It didn’t even bother with white.

The ones that nearly made it

Mauritania was on this list until 2017, when it added a red stripe along the top and bottom.

Mauritania's flag until 2017, plain green with a gold crescent and star, and since 2017, with a red stripe added at the top and bottom — Mauritania’s flag before and after the red stripes

Afghanistan only counts because of the Taliban’s white flag with black writing; the flag it used until 2021 had red in it. Sri Lanka and Qatar both use maroon, which I’ve counted as red, because I’m not getting into an argument about maroon.

And New Zealand?

Grey on the map, and of course it doesn’t exist.

More flags: countries whose flag has a different back and countries that fly Poland’s flag upside down.

Sources: Wikipedia list of national flags and the flag pages for Jamaica, Mauritania, Sri Lanka, Qatar and Bhutan. Flag images: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

Country	Colours on the flag
Afghanistan (Taliban flag)	White, black
Bhutan	Yellow, orange, white
Ireland	Green, white, orange
Côte d'Ivoire	Orange, white, green
Niger	Orange, white, green