Flag of El Salvador
The flag of El Salvador, adopted in 1912 and flown in a 189:335 ratio. Below: what its colours are, which flags it is confused with, and a short drill to make it stick.
At a glance
| Country | El Salvador |
|---|---|
| Capital | San Salvador |
| Proportions | 189:335 |
| Adopted | 1912 |
| Emoji | 🇸🇻 |
| Code | SV · SLV |
Colours of the flag of El Salvador
The flag of El Salvador uses 2 colours: blue, white. 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 El Salvador
El Salvador is genuinely easy to mix up with 4 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 El Salvador
The flag of El Salvador — officially Republic of El Salvador — is flown in a 189:335 ratio. El Salvador 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 1912. El Salvador has its capital at San Salvador and a population of about 6.4 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 SV. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on El Salvador
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