Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #003893
- #ffffff
- #cf2027
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.
- 5 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
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.
- star
A circle of ten yellow five-pointed stars – representing the ten islands that make up the country – is charged on the hoist (left) side of the flag, centred on the red band.
Flag of Cape Verde on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Cape Verde's first flag, hoisted the day the country became independent on 5 July 1975, was based on the flag of the PAIGC, the party that fought for the independence of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau from Portugal. After the Movement for Democracy won the two-party election of 1991, a contest was held for a design that would break with the socialist past; the architect Pedro Gregório won it, his stated reason for participating being a flag that no other nation's could be confused with, as the existing one had been with Guinea-Bissau's. The current flag became official on 25 September 1992, and its ten stars represent the ten islands, arranged in a circle to symbolise unity.
Drafted from Flag of Cape Verde 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.
Its days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 2 of them, with the sentence that says so.
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. Cape Verde is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Original: Pedro Gregório Vector: SKopp
From Flag of Cape Verde (3-2).svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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