Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ffcd00
- #003087
- #c8102e
Other flags with red, blue or yellow or all of red, blue and yellow 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.
What we know about it
The design descends from a flag that Francisco de Miranda and Lino de Clemente created in 1801 for Venezuela's First Republic; the arrangement in use now was adopted on November 26, 1861. The upper band takes half the total height, a ratio of 2:1:1, which is what sets the Colombian and Ecuadorian flags apart from most other tricolours. Miranda traced his choice of colours to a late-night conversation with Goethe at a party in Weimar in 1785.
Drafted from Flag of Colombia 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 day
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on one 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.
The Gran Colombia Trio
Flags people genuinely mix up. Worth a second look.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Colombia is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit See File history below for details.
From Flag of Colombia.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
