Flag of Belgium
The flag of Belgium, adopted in 1831 and flown in a 13:15 ratio. Below: what its colours are, which flags it is confused with, and a short drill to make it stick.
Colours of the flag of Belgium
The flag of Belgium uses 3 colours: yellow, red, black. The swatches below are sampled from the flag artwork itself, so they are the exact values used in the file rather than an approximation.
Flags often confused with Belgium
Belgium is genuinely easy to mix up with 1 other flags. Compare them side by side here — the difference is usually a ratio, a shade, or the order of two bands.
About the flag of Belgium
The flag of Belgium — officially Kingdom of Belgium — is flown in a 13:15 ratio. Belgium sits in Europe, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1831. Belgium has its capital at Brussels and a population of about 11.9 million, figures that come from the same dataset the quizzes are built on.
As an emoji the flag is 🇧🇪, produced from the regional indicator letters for BE. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Belgium
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