Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #cf142b
- #ffcc00
- #00247d
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 tricolour, dating to the original flag introduced in 1811 during the Venezuelan War of Independence, is the basic design; the current version was introduced in 2006. What has changed since is the set of stars (their placement and their number) and the coat of arms, which is optional and sits at the upper-left corner.
Drafted from Flag of Venezuela 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.
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. Venezuela is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Various, see File history below for details.
From Flag of Venezuela.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
