Flag of Guinea-Bissau
The flag of Guinea-Bissau, adopted in 1973 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 | Guinea-Bissau |
|---|---|
| Capital | Bissau |
| Proportions | 1:2 |
| Adopted | 1973 |
| Emoji | 🇬🇼 |
| Code | GW · GNB |
Colours of the flag of Guinea-Bissau
The flag of Guinea-Bissau uses 3 colours: green, yellow, red. The swatches below are sampled from the flag artwork itself, so they are the exact values used in the file rather than an approximation.
About the flag of Guinea-Bissau
The flag of Guinea-Bissau — officially Republic of Guinea-Bissau — is flown in a 1:2 ratio. Guinea-Bissau sits in Africa, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1973. Guinea-Bissau has its capital at Bissau and a population of about 2.2 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 GW. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Guinea-Bissau
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