Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #171696
- #d90f19
- #ffffff
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, white and blue at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 3 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
- a disc
A single round device near the middle, as wide as it is tall, filling its box the way a circle does.
What is on it
Each of these is what this flag's own Wikipedia article says is on it, the sentence is underneath, so you can see what it rests on.
- coat of arms
It consists of the coat of arms of Belize on a blue field with red stripes at the top and bottom.
Flag of Belize on Wikipedia
- writing
The national motto, Sub Umbra Floreo, meaning "Under the Shade I Flourish", is written in the lower part of the coat of arms.
Flag of Belize on Wikipedia
- human figure
The flag is royal blue, with a white disc at the centre containing the national coat of arms held by a mestizo and a man of African descent.
Flag of Belize on Wikipedia
- tree
The figures, tools, and mahogany trees represent this industry.
Flag of Belize on Wikipedia
- leaf
The 50 leaves recall 1950, the year PUP came to power.
Flag of Belize on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The winning submission in the 1981 competition was the People's United Party's unofficial flag, with a red border on all four sides, changed to a border on just the top and bottom before adoption; it was made by two government officials, Everal Waight and Inez Sanchez, and is also known as the Flag of Unity. Alongside Malta's, it is one of two national flags to depict a human; the coat of arms is a memory of the logging industry that first brought British settlement, and carries the motto Sub Umbra Floreo, Under the Shade I Flourish. There were no standardised specifications until 2019.
Drafted from Flag of Belize on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-26, and checked back against it: every date, name and number above appears in the sentences it was written from. Nobody here wrote it by hand.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Belize is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1000 × 600
Credit Caleb Moore
From Flag of Belize.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
