Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #fce100
- #007168
- #000000
- #d21034
- #ffffff
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 · green 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.
- star
On the left side, there shall be a red triangle, in the center of which there shall be a star.
Flag of Mozambique on Wikipedia
- book
Above this there shall be a crossed hoe and gun, superimposed on a book.
Flag of Mozambique on Wikipedia
- other weapon
Above this there shall be a crossed hoe and gun, superimposed on a book.
Flag of Mozambique on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The design, adopted on 1 May 1983, is based on the first flag of FRELIMO, which has governed since independence from Portugal on 25 June 1975. It is the only national flag that features a modern firearm (an AK-47 with a bayonet, crossed by a hoe over an open book) and calls to remove the rifle have been made ever since the democratisation of 1990. The constitution reads the book, the hoe and the gun as education, production and defence.
Drafted from Flag of Mozambique 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.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Mozambique is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit FRELIMO
From Flag of Mozambique.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
