Flag of Burkina Faso
The flag of Burkina Faso, adopted in 1984 and flown in a 2:3 ratio. Below: what its colours are, which flags it is confused with, and a short drill to make it stick.
At a glance
| Country | Burkina Faso |
|---|---|
| Capital | Ouagadougou |
| Proportions | 2:3 |
| Adopted | 1984 |
| Emoji | 🇧🇫 |
| Code | BF · BFA |
Colours of the flag of Burkina Faso
The flag of Burkina Faso uses 3 colours: red, green, yellow. 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 Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso 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 Burkina Faso
The flag of Burkina Faso — officially Burkina Faso — is flown in a 2:3 ratio. Burkina Faso sits in Africa, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1984. Burkina Faso has its capital at Ouagadougou and a population of about 24.1 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 BF. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Burkina Faso
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