Flag of Costa Rica
The flag of Costa Rica, adopted in 1906 and flown in a 3:5 ratio. Below: what its colours are, which flags it is confused with, and a short drill to make it stick.
At a glance
| Country | Costa Rica |
|---|---|
| Capital | San José |
| Proportions | 3:5 |
| Adopted | 1906 |
| Emoji | 🇨🇷 |
| Code | CR · CRI |
Colours of the flag of Costa Rica
The flag of Costa Rica uses 3 colours: white, red, blue. 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 Costa Rica
Costa Rica 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 Costa Rica
The flag of Costa Rica — officially Republic of Costa Rica — is flown in a 3:5 ratio. Costa Rica sits in North America, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1906. Costa Rica has its capital at San José and a population of about 5.2 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 CR. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Costa Rica
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