Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #2a936a
- #be1e2d
- #ffc20e
- #ffffff
- #000000
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a triangle at the pole
A wedge whose base is the whole pole edge, widest halfway down, in a colour the fly side is not painted in.
red ones · white ones · green ones · black ones · orange ones
What we know about it
Known as the Golden Arrowhead, it was designed by the American vexillologist Whitney Smith and adopted in May 1966, when the country became independent from the United Kingdom; the black and white fimbriations were not in his original, and were later additions suggested by the College of Arms. Red is zeal and dynamism, green agriculture and forests, black endurance, white the rivers and water.
Drafted from Flag of Guyana 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. Guyana is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1000 × 600
Credit Whitney Smith
From Flag of Guyana.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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