Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #3e5eb9
- #b10c0c
- #ffd900
- #ffffff
- #000000
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.
red ones · white ones · blue ones · yellow ones · black ones
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.
- shield
The design by King Sobhuza II features a black and white shield called the Nguni shield, with a staff and two spears, on a field of blue, yellow, and red horizontal bands.
Flag of Eswatini on Wikipedia
- spear
The design by King Sobhuza II features a black and white shield called the Nguni shield, with a staff and two spears, on a field of blue, yellow, and red horizontal bands.
Flag of Eswatini on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The design is King Sobhuza II's, based on the military flag he gave the Swazi Pioneer Corps in 1941, a reminder of the nation's military traditions; it was first hoisted on 25 April 1967, the day the king took the pledge of oath, registered by the College of Arms in London on 30 October 1967, and adopted on 6 October 1968, a month after independence from the United Kingdom. Red stands for past battles, blue for peace and stability, yellow for the resources of Eswatini; the Nguni shield and two spears are protection from the country's enemies, and its colour is meant to show white and black people living in peaceful coexistence.
Drafted from Flag of Eswatini 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. Eswatini is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Sobhuza II
From Flag of Eswatini.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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