Flag of Ethiopia
The flag of Ethiopia, adopted in 1996 and flown in a 1:2 ratio. Below: what its colours are, which flags it is confused with, and a short drill to make it stick.
At a glance
| Country | Ethiopia |
|---|---|
| Capital | Addis Ababa |
| Proportions | 1:2 |
| Adopted | 1996 |
| Emoji | 🇪🇹 |
| Code | ET · ETH |
Colours of the flag of Ethiopia
The flag of Ethiopia uses 4 colours: green, red, orange, 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 Ethiopia
Ethiopia is genuinely easy to mix up with 3 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 Ethiopia
The flag of Ethiopia — officially Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia — is flown in a 1:2 ratio. Ethiopia sits in Africa, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1996. Ethiopia has its capital at Addis Ababa and a population of about 135.5 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 ET. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Ethiopia
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