Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ffdd00
- #ed1c24
- #034ea2
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 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
The flag is charged with the Ecuadorian coat of arms scaled to one-half the width of the flag and centered in the field.
Flag of Ecuador on Wikipedia
- mountain
The flag features a unique coat of arms at its center, depicting a mountain, a river, and the famous Galápagos Islands, emphasizing Ecuador's diverse geography.
Flag of Ecuador on Wikipedia
What we know about it
First adopted by law in 1835 and again on 26 September 1860, the flag was finished in 1900, when the coat of arms was added at the centre. The yellow band is half the width of the flag and the blue and red a quarter each. Miranda ascribed the colours to Goethe's theory of primary colours, after a conversation at a party in Weimar in the winter of 1785; without the coat of arms, the flag matches Colombia's in every aspect.
Drafted from Flag of Ecuador 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. Ecuador is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1440 × 960
Credit President of the Republic of Ecuador, first uploaded by Denelson83 as Flag of Ecuador.svg, modifications by Husunqu, Zscout370
From Flag of Ecuador.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
