Chad's national flag is virtually identical, differing only very slightly in shade of blue, to the flag of which European country - so much so that Chad formally protested to the United Nations in 2004?
- Moldova
- Bulgaria
- Andorra
- Romania
Why D? And why not the others?
Correct answer: D. Romania
Both Chad and Romania fly a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow, and red, and the resemblance is close enough that Chad's government formally complained to the United Nations in 2004, asking for the matter to be addressed, though Romania declined to alter a flag tied to its 1848 revolutions and its 1989 anti-communist uprising, and the two countries have coexisted with near-identical flags ever since (experts note Chad's blue is marginally deeper than Romania's). The resemblance is coincidental: Chad's designers switched from the green of an earlier design, judged too close to Mali's flag, to blue, without any reference to Romania. Moldova's flag is also a blue-yellow-red vertical tricolour but carries a distinctive coat of arms in its centre stripe, immediately setting it apart. Bulgaria's flag uses white, green, and red in horizontal bands, and Andorra's uses blue, yellow, and red but with its own coat of arms centred on the yellow stripe - neither is a plain, uninterrupted match the way Chad and Romania are.
Source: Britannica: flag of Chad; flag of Romania; corroborated by contemporaneous reporting on Chad's 2004 UN protest as a documented historical event