Flag of Mali
The flag of Mali, adopted in 1961 and flown in a 2:3 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 Mali
The flag of Mali uses 3 colours: yellow, green, 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.
Flags often confused with Mali
Mali 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 Mali
The flag of Mali — officially Republic of Mali — is flown in a 2:3 ratio. Mali sits in Africa, and its flag is part of the standard set used in every quiz on this site.
The current design dates from 1961. Mali has its capital at Bamako and a population of about 25.2 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 ML. The dedicated emoji page has the codepoints, HTML entity, CSS value and shortcode if you need to paste it somewhere.
Test yourself on Mali
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