Flag of Germany
The flag of Germany, adopted in 1949 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.
Colours of the flag of Germany
The flag of Germany uses 3 colours: red, black, 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 Germany
Germany 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 Germany
The flag of Germany — officially Federal Republic of Germany — is flown in a 3:5 ratio. Germany sits in Europe, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1949. Germany has its capital at Berlin and a population of about 83.5 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 DE. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Germany
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